Victorian Butter Trade.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 93, 16 October 1895, Page 2

Victorian Butter Trade.

Notwithstanding the success of the butter shipments, Victorian exporters are not yet satisfied that all has been done thai can be done to ensure the best market conditions, A uniformly high quality is aimed at, and for this the agricultural chemist, Mr A. N. Pearson, at the last meeting of the Perishable Products Committee in Victoria, strongly urged the adoption of a proper scientific examination as it is practised in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and other butter-exporting countries. He advocates the standardising of all butter by the Reichest test, and suggests special observations to detect if any radical change in the constituents of but* ter is prodnced by the lengthened freezing entailed in the voyage to England. These are the precautions that ensure success. It is desirable that correspond* ing care be taken with regard to the live cattle trade and mutton, and doubtless the experiments already made will help us to that end. Many of the conditions adverse to the former trade are of a preventative nature, and with care and experience, and due attention to shipping, and inspection before shipping, com* bined with the beet representation ot the shippers' interests on the other side, there is no reason to doubt of tbe success of the enterprise. — Waipawa Mail.