Export of Butter.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 178, 28 January 1895, Page 3

Export of Butter.

Writing on the subject of the export of butter from the colonies to Britain, in the London Chronicle, Mr G. S. Jakms, Chrißtchurch, states: " My experience for many years with foreign butter is that every handling and re-makmg-up deteriorates the article, and I notice that the trade, getting it in 561 b cases in bulk, pat it up in marketable shape for distribution. Now if this was done in the ) colonies, land shipped frozen in pounds or two pounds as the Brittany, I am perfectly sure that the consumer would get a far finer quality, and that it would keep better. As regards freight it would cost no more nor would the packages be more. The advantage, I contend, would be this, that it would thaw in the kitchen, and every retailer could get his supply from the "cool chamber twice a -week. In New Zealand I have experimented on butter put away in the frozen chamber in bulk and re made-up at a proper factory, also the same butter put away in pounds ; I have found the keeping quality of that put away in marketable shape— namely pounds— has far exceeded the re-made-up article."