Wairarapa Butter.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2046, 23 March 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Butter.

To the Editor of tlu Standard.

Sik,— Kindly allow me space in your journal to reply to an editorial, or portion of it, which appeared in Monday’s Siaudaed. Writing on the butter question you say, Sometimes the storekeeper keeps the butter until it is rancid, and this is mixed with the fresh butter just brought in, thus spoiling the lot. When a local appeared the other day, to which you referred in another part of the leader, 1 thought some one must hare been taking a rise, so to speak, out of your informant, and did not therefore think it worth notice; but, sir, when I find you iu an editorial advancing such a statement as the above I thought a few lines would not be out cf place. To bJieve for one moment tha 1 we have a storekeeper in our micst who would be such an insane idiot to keep butter until it is rancid, mix it with good butter and thereupon consign the lot to the Wellington market as fresh butter, is rather too much to ask.

No, sir, the storekeeper, having a better knowledge of the requirements of the Wellington market, should he have a little inferior butter to dispose of, would try and place it nearer home. For instance, yourself might get a pound once in a while. The fault lies not with the storekeeper, but with the producer. If dairy farmers will make good butter the storekeepers will keep it good. Let the dairyman make his butler during the summer three times per week, also working and cleansing it well, using a certain amount of care as to what kind of food and also the nature of the water the cattle use. In this lies chiefly the success or failure of bis butter, not, as you state, on account of the unfortunate storekeeper mixing the various makes of butter. Trusting you will kindly insert these lines,

1 am, &c., Butteb Woekeb, Greytown, March 27.