Another Competitor in the Butter Trade.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 1, 1 July 1897, Page 2

Another Competitor in the Butter Trade.

The United States are proposing to^^H make a serious effort to capture the British butter market, and the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington intends to take charge of the business. The New York Journal ot Commerce of Nth April Btatea that " the Department will go into the butter business itself, buying fine creamery butter, packing it in various shapes, the regular 601 b tub, the Australian footsqnare box, sealed tins, <fee, and see to the transfer of the butter from the refrigerator cars to the refrigerating chambers in steamers in this port. If the steamers do not have proper receptacles for butter the Department will havo it enclosed in boxes that will certainly protect it from the odours of meat, fruit, and other merchandise. Agents of the department will receive the butter in London and put it on the market, and report on the popularity of the several packages, and public opinion regarding the colour and taste of the butter, and then the history of the whole transaction will be published for the information of American farmers, and the shipping experiments will „ be repeated again and again." The exports of butter from New York to all destinations have increased from 14,222,0001 b for the period May Ist 1895, to April 20 1896, to 21,881,0001 b forthe corresponding period of 1896-97.