BUTTER FROM THE ANTIPODES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13339, 30 March 1911, Page 4

BUTTER FROM THE ANTIPODES.

It is twenty years since butter begau to arrive from New Zealand and Australia, says the London Daily News, and the few packages which came and were regarded suspiciously have now grown into a monthly consignment in the season of twentyone million pounds. Last year no less than sixty-six million pounds of butter were received fiom the Commonwealth of Australia end New Zealand. “New Zealand butter" said Mr Sparrow; who lias just concluded a long tour in the Dominion, to a News representative, “comes into season just when the horn© supplies fall off, and its advent has considerably affected the market. Before it cam© we were alI most wholly dependent on Continental ! supplies. Most of this was ‘stows’ butter, i which became rancid and deteriorated in flavour. The New Zealand summer being test onposite. to ours, wo cau, thanks to improved refrigeration, now bring to the consumer a pure, fresh, grass-fed butter made from the milk of c °ws feeding m open pastures on natural food.’ The News goes on to say “The progress of dairy farming in' New Zealand >s phenomenal, and is mainly the result of the improved land system. The Government has power to purchase at a valuation sheep runs and cattle ranches suitable for closer sett lenient. Thus an estate of 39,982 acres used as a sheep run near a railway line was rei cently split up into 81 holdings.raiiKing ' from 170 to 218 acres lb* value of the land goes up from A2 or A3 to A3O or ,£4O ter acre, and even at the nrice nays well.” “Every farm and every i creamery is t nder strict Government supervision,” added Mr Sparrow. On most I Garins milking machines arc n?ed, and where men perform the work they hav lie scrupulously clean. The t is dealt with in the creamery by the latest machinery. Then immediately after manutetro t L butter is P«t ..tor and remains until the boxes are taken out of the ship on the Englmhdocklide There is eertamlv a growing future (hotli for the farmer in Now Zealand and "the market lor their products here.