BUTTER MISREPRESENTATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 3

BUTTER MISREPRESENTATION.

The matter of the sale of imported butter in England for what it is not, which has had a good deal of prominence lately, owing to the references to the extensive blending of colonial butter shipped to London, was the subject of a question in the. House of Commons just before the last mail left. The president of the Local Government Board was asked whether, in view of the fact that butter imported into th:>. United Kingdom from foreign countries was offered for sale as British butter, he would consider the desirability of introducing legislation requiring every person dealing in buttc to attach to each parcel exposed for sale a label, indicating that it was of foreign manufacture. Mr Runciman (president of the Board of Agriculture) answered that he would he glad to inquire into any specified case in which there was any reason to suppose that the description "British" had been falsely applied to imported butter, with a view to proceedings under the Merchandise Marks Act.

A well-known farmer in the Tomuka district, in a conversation with a newspaper representative, said that he heard that a very severe blight was overtaking the Californian thistle, and was spreading very rapidly throughout the Dominion. No doubt farmers will be glad to hear this, as the Californian thistle has been a source of much trouble to them for some time past. It will be a loss to the farmer to have the cow afraid of iiim. It is a loss every time she is frightened. To run a cow to pasture is like throwing money away. A cow in any way worried will not do her best. The cow that is made a pet of will make money for her owner. The milk of a frightened or abused cow is unwholesome.