Butter and Cheese Export

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 95, 28 January 1888, Page 3

Butter and Cheese Export

' Continued. . = Market pix)Bp«cta are at the present moment perhaps , somewhat mprt promising than, usual owiug to the temporary;, shortness of the Home supply. The general quality of English produce has fallen otf very much during late years owing to the increased use of ''eiim" 'milk; by the "manufacturers: What America can send we have ,no means of , eati* mating as we only 'receive from that quarter whatever may not be required for local consumption. .Prices are verj irregular throughout the year, i the* range for ■;• the past twelve months for American being from 28s to 65s per cwt. This, however; arises ' largely j from the ; great differences in the quality sent to r this market at different aeasona i of^Jhe^year.' ."/There is always a good demand for sound/ well. made cheese, and it seems not-improbable/ that on the average < afcout 45s ; and 50a per cwt, according to quality, might be readijy secured throughout the year for New Zealand produce of that description. During the ■ late, autumn and winter months (say September to March) a considerably higher .level, could, doubtless.: be , realised and so far as practicable ah effort should be made to place Colonial shipments on the London market during that part of the year. (<i.) Standard of quality :'— The desirability of having before you exactly that style of cheese which would birat suit the wants of our market, suggests to us that we should name some particular colonial brand, and we are fortunately in a poaitioa to do so. By the Tainui we received last month a consignment marked N.Z.L, & M.AC., London, from the Gore i Dairy Factory Company, of Invercargill, which was perhaps as nearly as possible perfect in point of size, colour, shape, flavour, at time of shipment. We assume that to have been the case, because 7 cases which were packed' close to the refrigerating chamber, happened to come to hand in good condition, that is to say unjff»<cted by the heat of the steamer' 3 hold, and these 7 cases were a practically perfect sample of what New Zealand cheese ought to be. This is the parcel alluded to on page 1. s ; To be continued