NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 287, 6 February 1914, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

A SAN FRANCISCO APPRECIATION

Discussing the quality of New Zealand butter, the Post of San Francisco says : “This New Zealand butter has a character all its own. California butter-con-sumers are accustomed to alfalfa and wild-feed butter. This colonial butter has a more distinctive character. It is more like Eastern clover and blue grass, but still is

different from it. Its texture is finer than that of the average butter produced at the California creameries. It is a well-known fact that the users of Eastern clover and bluegrass butter, when they come to California, are not particularly struck by the less distinctive alfalfa butter of this State. In fact, it might be safely .asserted that the taste for any distinctive butter is an acquired one, just as much as the taste for ripe olives. The handlers of this New Zealand and colonial butter will have before them the question of educating the public to liking their product. It is a full, grass-fed butter, and it is bound to make its way. This colonial butter costs about 29 to 30 cents a pound to lay down in San Francisco. It ought to be selling at retail for 70 cents a two-pouhd roll. This is less than handlers expect to get, because they want to put °n about a paritv with first-quality California butter. Their idea is not so much to cut prices as to have this butter as a club to prevent the creameryowners from running up the price any higher. The butter bears the stamp of the colonial inspectors. Dealers expect the public will readily accept it.”