N.Z. BUTTER AT HOME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 11

N.Z. BUTTER AT HOME

AN INTERESTING LETTER The following letter, which appeared in the Western Morning News lain) on March 6 last, will be of interest io the New Zealand industry: — bir, —btaVcments regarding the production and quality of New Zealand butter made in connection with the establishment of a new butter factory at Camborne are in several respects misleading and unfair to tire New Zealand dairying industry. It was stated that the reason given for running the new factory on the Danish system of separating ‘the milk at the factory rather than that usually employed in New Zealand is that the banish method, though less economical, produces butter of so much better quality that it is always more expensive in this country than the N«w Zealand produce. If the promoters of the new factory are basing their plans or. these promises, they are at fault from the start. The reason why Danish butter is always more costly than New Zealand is that the New Zealand sytsem is so much moic economical that the farmers in the Dominion can afford to sell butter of equal quality at a lower price and still make a profit. Nature and science combined cannot produce a finer or more uniform quality of butter than that, of New Zealand, and to make the above quoted statement in the West of England, where a hundredweight, of New Zealand butter is sold over the counter for every pound of Danish, is surely asking for contradiction. Significant facts are that in New Zealand the dairy herds feed on sun-lit pastures all the year round, and spend every night of the year out in the pastures and not in unhygienic sheds feeding on artificial foods. At the moment Denmark is so bound in frost and fog that it is not possible for butter possessing the highest natural properties to be produced there, no matter how scientific the method mav be. C. A. E. CHUDLEIGH. Rolandsfield, Bud’, March 2.