COMPARING BUTTERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1127, 15 May 1911, Page 8

COMPARING BUTTERS.

FOREIGN EXHIBITS IN AUSTRALIA. Iα Sydney, steps have been taken to make an interesting trial of New South Wales butters irom an export standard, together with a comparison with Danish butter. Tho butter was judged and sealed and conveyed to freezing rooms, whero it will be held for two months. It will then be rejudged, together with exhibits of fresh butter ior local consumption, and the whole will bo exhibited during the sitting of tho Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers' and .Secretaries' Association's conference in Sydney. Trophies in the form of si'.ver cups, suitably inscribed, which aro being presented by Mr. Kusjell, will bo awarded to the exhibits gaining the greatest aggregate'number of points in each' class, viz., export and local consumption. After the judging is completed, a whole (lay is to be set aside for tho managers in conference to go through the exhibits with the judges, and compare the relative merits of each exhibit. Mr. M. A. O'Callaghau (one of the judges) will have all the exhibits chemically analysed, so that each manager can sco tho exact composition of his butter.

Exhibits of the best Danish, Argentine, and Siberian butters, which arc being specially imported for the benefit of Hie managers in conference, will be on view with tho local butters for comparison and educational purposes, ami will also bo analysed.

During the discussion on the utility herd-book proposal at Stratford, Mr. C. J. Iteakes Mid there was a danger in roing to extremes in breediuf; for milk. This might be done to such an pxtent that the constitution of tho stock might be impaired, and the whole thing go up in smoke.

It is reported that in a certain New Zealand orcluir.d Grarcnstein apples wcro planted some years back. Owing to the bloom being profuse and the crop very small, an orchard instructor of the Orchards Division suggested some three years ago that grafts of Summer Golden Pearmain be worked on the trees. This was done (one small graft on each tree), with the result that as soon as the. Summer Golden Pearmain started to bloom tho crop of Grayensteins commenced to increase, until this yenr there is ii tremendous crop, and the small branch of Summer Golden Pearmaius is also simply loaded.