THE BUTTER MARKET

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 272, 22 November 1935, Page 7

THE BUTTER MARKET

CALIFORNIA’S PROBLEM

“HAS N.Z. AN ELECTION?”

Some little while ago Mr Forbes spoke of the likelihood of New Zealand 'being able before long to exlpora butter to California. Faced with this statement by a New Zealand farmer

[Visiting America, a business man in San Francisco said, laughingly, Have you an election. coming off in New Zealand? On being answered affirmatively, he said, “Oh, well, that

explains it.” The Americans are quite open about their T.B. Hllings. The Government gays there are too many cows—kill those which have symptoms of tuberculosis. Killing has been going on for a long while. Im California., the programme is for the slaughter of 150,000 this year, and of these 75,000 had been killed: some time ago. On these the payment per cow is 25 dollars and replacement costs about! 10 dollars for good cows, half that foi second grades. Tn Wisconsin theme is a law compelling all restaurateurs to serve one ounce of butter or cheese with each meal. In Los Angeles the housewives of that City of Angels break the windows ©f butchers’ establishments as a protest against rise in price of meat. The U.S.A. placed a dully on cocoa-nut-oal to put up the price of margarine, and so aid the producers of butter, but cottonseed oil is too handy a substance to allow of the price of margarine rising. It fis small wonder that the ’Frisco gentleman laughed when Mr Forbes was reported to him as expecting a market for New Zealand butter in Ameirioa. The Americans do not know what to do with aTI the butter they produce. They., are no further out of the lunatic asylum than New Zealanders are. —Farming TTnst.