NEW ZEALAND DAIRY PRODUCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2319, 3 January 1890, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND DAIRY PRODUCE

The " ArgoV' Exhihklon correspondent writes thus on New Zealand oared pork : —Tbe hams are sbapaly, the sides well pressed and neatly trimmed. There Is a b'g Ptet tlno » sacking pig, cured and smoked whole, and tbe whole exhibit Is dslloately tinted, and made wondrous aromatlo with ptne wood smoke. Bat whst of the flivor when oooked 1 In New Zas'and, as in Australia, I have never eaten a slice of bam or bio on which was not utterly destitute of the true English flavor. It Is all simply pickled, not cared; salted for keeping, not prepared for eating. And so here, as there, the very best of It oan be bought for nineSenoe or tenpence a pjund, while prime loglish sells easily at doable the price. Quality iB the one enentUl la tbe proptratlon of all food products In New Zaaland, an in Australia, quality within and without, souudnaas In all essentials and not appearances only.

Being afiked theva'oe of buUer, aa Oamira merchant replied :—" I don'c know that It has a valae, and I wish to goodness that I Dever a** another ponnd of the staff I have mora bo;hec and trouble oveif what the producers please to call batter tban any other branch of my boßtcesj. If yon tell the maker that bis or her batter won't keep, yoa give off>noe, and should yoa sell a ouatomer a pouod of--U It-'a very likely returned the nnxt; d-y wltt a request not to repeat the Insult of expeoiing the purchaser ti eat «uoh rubbish.- Muoh of tb.3 butter looks aud tttßtes well enough when it is brought In, but it won't keep two days barely. Were the gansial ran of batter bstteir, maoh more ol It woald ba eaten snd pttoes corre.'pondingly higher. In no me oases laok o f olsanllneiss Is the cause of bad batter, but in my opinion, tha chief fanlt lies in the foolish practice generally observed in this district, of keeping the cream a whole week before churning, when, In many instances It Is fairly putrid and totally aunt for miking batter "