BUTTER ADULTERATION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2126, 8 July 1907, Page 4

BUTTER ADULTERATION

“It is said,” states the Scotsman, “that some firms ill Holland are shippin- across from the London market about 500 tons of New Zealand and Australian butter weekly. Tho butter is there manipulated, and the original amount of water which ill New Zealand butter is 8 per cent., is brought up to the extreme limit allowed by British law—viz., 16 per cent. That is to say, the Dutchman adds 81b of water, which costs him nothing, to every 1121 b qf butter. Ho is probably able to add 41b of salt to every cwt. of butter. In this adulterated condition the butter is returned to this country and sold as Dutch butter, and if the price is Is per lb, there is a gain of 12 per cwt. as tlie result of this process. It is estimated in some quarters that no less than 2000 tons of this manipulated butter are received every week from Holland and elsewhere on tho Continent, and distributed throughout Great Britian. By the contemplated legislation the Government proposes to legalise the manufacture of this watered butter.

IMPROVING THE DAIRY HERD. To a South Island newspaper the Hon. Mr. MeNab spoke as follows relative to his proposals to increase the productiveness of tho herds of tho colony:—“We intend to put a price on each of the imported bulls and dispose of them by sale where they are wanted in dairying districts, and we are taking means at the present time to import the nucleus of purebred herds of the great milking breeds of the world to Levin, and to rear there sires of pure blood and high milkin'* pedigree to dispose of in the dairying districts of the colony. I mentioned at Palmerston North that one man in the colony had offered to purchase a herd from the best Shorthorn milking strain in the world and at present it is in the colony. I am communicating with some others at the present time, and may get a similar offer from sopifi of the prpininent agriculturalists in connection with other breeds of cattle purely for milking purposes. Wo-would like to securo three at any rate—for instance Holsteins, Shorthorns, and Red-polls —some of the groat milking breeds, and thus enable us to ascertain first of all the class of animal that will do best) in this colony or in different parts of the colony, and enable us further to supply not only sires of great value, blit to givo to dairymen a choice of what kind they would prefer,