AUSTRALIAN BUTTER "

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER "

' IMPEOVEMENT CLAIMED. Mr. M'Lnnes, in reviewing the butter 'at a New South Wales exhibition, said 1 that' b>t year 62 per cent, of the butter was 'of- ohoicest grade; this.year the'choicest standard was attained by 84 per cent., or an increase of 22 per cent. In 1917, 33 per. cent, of the exhibits were first, grade and 5 per cent, second grade. This year 15 per cent, wore first grade and 1 per cent, second grade. There was, he explained, an improvement both in flavour and manufacture, and the factory managers were to be congratulated upon the excellent standard of the exhibits. ' The improvement the judge regarded as all the more gratifying from the fact that the manufacturers in packing the butter for the export classes had to contend with adverse conditions due to the excessively wet season and the consequent general ' prevalence of mould growths. Further, the pastures in February, when the export butter was made, were rank and sour, conditions which tended to weaken tho body of the butter. He contended that it betokened the ability of the factory managers that they were able to so successfully master their handicaps.