OUR BUTTER IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2151, 18 May 1914, Page 8

OUR BUTTER IN LONDON

MAHGARJ.NE COM PETITION

"The London butter market has proved disappointing to consignors," says the secretary of the South island Dairy-Association in his annual report. , "The strike prevented butter getting away, and then shipments were heavy from New Zealand, and mot heavy shipments from Australia, causing a glut on the market. Prices rapidly felt and have remained low all along. Many other causes contributed; a uiikl season in Unite:! Kingdom and. on the Continent ; Herman supplies of Banish were diverted-to London: Irish butter cam© on. the market a month earlier thaii usual; the margarine trade lias increased vc-ry much. For the last four months iii 1912 the imports of mar* garino were 23,"00 tons, ami for the four last months in 1013 they were 27,156 tons, and no doubt-the British manufacture correspondingly increased. The British agriculturist n-s well as the colonial, suffer badly from this bogus butter. 'But it- is goad, and will always sell readily. It is" better than se-emul-rate butter, and'most boarders in hotels, restaurants, and lprlginghouses get nothing else than margarine. The British public evidently don't like to accent margarine under its name, so the British. Board of Agriculture have approved of 154 fancy names under which it can be sold--'Flower of the Village,' etc Seine people do actually like being gulled. 'Hi is, h h«wevor, surprising to learn that the British. Board of Agriculture aetuallv assists jti this way in gulling the public, to the detriment of those whoss interests they are supposed to foster and conserve.

"High-class lmtter need not fear morgarine, but lower classes mtist suffer, and the danger is that with Tionw separation ninl increase, in moisture, our butter cu the whole is nob so good aa when we liad less moisture and no homo separation. Wo know we have Some factories in New Zealand whoae butter is unsurpassed in. the whole World, but hot all, we fear. There were, then, reasons for the unfortunate trend of the butter'market in London."