The Colonial Butter Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 262, 11 May 1897, Page 2

The Colonial Butter Industry.

Mr Jones, one of the Manchester delegates who recently visited the colonies, writes :— " They found thousands upon thousands of farmers of British stock banded together in co-operative creameries. They found hundreds upon hundreds of these co-operative creameries scattered over the vast Australian cons lincnt and also in .New Zealnnd. They found hundreds of square miles of the most fertile soil in the world overlooked by beautiful skies, and blessed with on almost perfect climate. They found welldesigned and well-built creameries and bntter factories fitted up with tha host machinery and equipped with every detail that science or skill could suggest. They found everything vory clean, bright and attractive, and the butter of (iho finest quality that could be produced in any country on the face of tho earth." Mr Jones then asks, " Has any frugal housekeeper ever wondered why butter is now so much cheaper iv winter than it used to be not so mauy years ago ?" and be replies, " It is through the energy and intelligence of our Australian relatives, backed by the kiudly Provideuco which has arranged that tbo Australian summer comes iv our winter, and by the iucrcasee of applied scientific knowledge, which has provided swift steamers equipped with refrigerating plant, to enable butter or other produce to bo preserved fresh and sweet for an indent nite period."