BUTTER PROSPECTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1582, 28 October 1912, Page 8

BUTTER PROSPECTS.

WILL GERMANY BE A.CUSTOMERP . In the opinion of Mr. J. Pederson, of the Dairy Commissioner's staff, who returned recently from a trip to Europe, Germany, who is every year increasing her consumptive power, will in the near future ,be a good customer for New Zealand butter. There is, of course, a duty of Id. per pound on butter entering Germany, but as a set-off fo this the retail price is invariably higher than on the British.markets. As there is no duty,on cream, Danish skimming stations on tho border are increasing their shipments of cream to German butter factories. Germany is also absorbing more Siberian butter. Ten years ago Germany was exporting butter; to-day sho is importing nearly four'- times as much as the total export of New Zealand. The tendency of Germany is, says Mr. Pederson, also the tendency of several other Continental countries. Prance,, ltaly, and even Switzerland cannot now meet the demands of their own consumers.. All this, he aruges, points to tho fact that butter values, will be well maintained in 1 the future, and that New Zealand dairy-farm-ers'can have every confidence in establishing the business of milk-production on a more permanent basis.' As long as finality is maintained, New Zealand butter has a splendid future before it.