PACKING BUTTER FOR SHIPMENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1714, 18 November 1887, Page 3

PACKING BUTTER FOR SHIPMENT

The " Sydney Mall" gives the following particulars of the shipment of butter to England by the Freeh Pood and Ice Company, a description of which has already been made by ua. Last June eight of Pond's enamelled boxes, each of whloh weighed half a owt of batter, mtde at the Pioneer Factory, Kiama, were placed In the cold chamber of the Orient steamhip, Llgucia. The principal obj?ot o£ shipping m June waß to have the butter arrive m London m a hot geason, so that the keeping quality of the prcdqot oou'd be prnperly tested. The butter arrived In excellent condition, and the company have now, under date Au'^nat }U, the account sales wad the follq?ring o mßianta from tbeif agents; — "The butter ix Liguila haa turned out very well, and has been fortunate enough to benefit m the rite of 10s per cwt <rhtch haa recently taken pi ice In consequence of the drought The difference m prioa between suinmor and winter ueuilly rangea from 10i to 203 pet cwt bo that, if you elect to Bhip the Stock you have on haud, you can count upon some \ls* over the prices now obtained, which 'We— 2 packages, 108a, 3, 106*, and 4 lOQa per cwfc respectively. Too will obterve bj the account sale a herein that the no* landing weigh ta chow IBlba lees. I^^plciDatlQn^'it iaasEerled that the wood fcfeorba' the brine, and accounts for thx deficiency of a littlo over 2 b per cbhb. S^rVt t\e packages of f utnr« ahipmenta with Vsttev "- do not iodfeata *^ c numbers, and nirnniikv «»«lr- ' «OurCQ Ot supply. are not tfte beat for u o *'. a think IS°? a ° ? Q >"ft tKS with the .«- im, oontairied cc u o ot butter, aa aweet and ?o»,n^ PS f oaalW , # The oheapeat llna wa«; \ n equ&u y go«d condition, but the flavor vpag turnijipy, Indicating a different feed, Our apert* are very emphatic that the bat bit \t landed m the

aame condition In the winter, vrtll have a | splendid result, The baVter Is good Bound I and well made." This Information should \ be^ encouraging to tho dairymen, as it is evident that the butter market, which of late haa been much depreoaed, can be oon&idorably roMeved by shipments. In London on the Isth of August the highest quotations for Imported batter were — JSormandy 127s tp 132a, Dutch HGs to 120a. The Fresh Food and Ice Company intend to ehlp regularly, and will Bent) aboat two tons from this port on the 11th instant. The enamelled boxes arp made m Auckland, where Mr Pond's factory is Situated,