The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1891. The Butter Trade

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 145, 30 May 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1891. The Butter Trade

The subject of the effect butter manufactured in New Zealand may have on the trade in England is dealt with in the Daily Telegraph in an exhaußtic article, from which, fbr the"iuf ormation of our readers, we will now make extracts.... Our contemporary says the great tr'Snsf ormation. scene which the civilised world has~ r -witnessed during tbe last half century 'is . undoubtedly due to.the- increased facilities of com- \ nmuication which mankind owes to the ' steamship, the railway, and the elect'rive telegraph. What"' would have been ! thought by our grandfathers, to whom New Zealand was an uuknown word, i could they have read that within the last few weeks, great improvements have been effected in the importation of butter from New Zealand so that a trade of considerable importance to the colony, and also to the Mother Country is about to spring up ? One feature peculiarly favorable to the development of the enterprise is that the English winter is the ' Antipodean summer. In , England the spring butter is often tainted by , the food consumed by the cows which have swede turnips served out to them when grass is too backward to afford a good bite to cattle and sheep. In New Zealand; on the other , hand, thousands upon -thousands of acres of the finest grass afford pasturage upon which the domestic animals thrive with a vigor unknown amidst the cold and nipping winds of an Euglish spring.. We. are now conf ion ted with the astonishing fact that butter made under the Southern Cross can be sent over thirteen thousand miles of ocean to London, in a perfectly .sweet condition, and sold at a price remunerative to the consignors, and at the same time lower than this article of univeral cou sumption has ever been quoted before. After describing, the mode of packing, the writer goes on to say that " butter of the Anchor brand is realising in the English market one hundred and sixteen shillings per hundred weight wholesale, as compared with one hundred and thirty-six shillings commanded by a like amount of Danish butter, with which the Antipodean product compares favorably." What we have quoted shows bow much attention butter made in New Zea- " land is receiving at Home, and how willing consumers are to welcome the i cheaper article which is of equal quality with the brands of long estab- , lished reputation.