Butter and its Counterfeits.
It ia quite time, aayt •_>* Mark Lane Uxoosm. that a Bill §♦'-'*** passed W jtrmt the onto «f k~'* ria * lot butter, u
the bogus article is gradually driving the real commodity out of the market. The B Bil of Butry, issue ’ 1 v 'he \.u.- ■■ (•hu«i lut during Febiuary !■ pi.-p-'.flo’is of b Jttetit e to butter sent us by cirinin couu tiles was very large, as w.ll be sien by the Ijilowingfigurrs :—lloibut'i, ;i TEScwt of but lerine t0!5,245cwt fcfbutur; Nunv.iy, ‘236scwt ti)643cwt ; Germany, IOIb w: t ■ 11,615cwt ; Belgium, 3UUcnt to SSuocwt The first quantity in each case, m aeuvir, repiesents only the declared quantity of butterine. That a great portion of what is sent as butter is a mixture is ctrtain. France only declares 9cwt' of butteriue, and sends 30.301 cwt as butter ; yet, probably, not a tenth part of the latter quantity is pure butter.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1844, 14 June 1886, Page 3
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151Butter and its Counterfeits. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1844, 14 June 1886, Page 3
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