The Butter Industry.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8194, 22 May 1906, Page 2

The Butter Industry.

English Merchant's "Tips." A big firm of merchants in Bristol, England, writing to a Wellington produce hrm, characterised as " mischievous lies" tho oft-publisbed statement that Now Zealand butter is taken to Holland from London, there mixed with inferior stuff, and then repacked and reshtpped to London as New Zealand produce. The writer goes on to say, " Now is the time for New Zealand farmers to set to work to weed out thoir poor paying cows, with ft view to getting the utmost produce from their herds#, and meeting competition without whining. I believe that we shall find that in tho very near future Siberia will immensely increase its production of butter, and our people will not have to eat margarine or other substitutes because they cannot get good wholesome sound butter for Is per lb, and unless during the ensuing summer either this country or any butter-pro-ducing country of the Continent suffers severely from drought, I feel sure we shall hare a much lower range of prices in butter next season. If you see signs of this it may be well for you to use your influence to get the smaller men who have been using hand separators to send to the creameries, and so reduce the quantity of butter which will be sent here as milled butter, because when the prices of the best goods are low, milled and dairy butter is difficult of sale. In looking back over the past records I find that when the best butter has been at a reasonable price, milled has usually ruled about 15s, sometimes 20s, below best qualities, so if next season your choicest factory goods should open up at 93a, t'.ii., milled would have to come at from 75s to 7S.s, c.i.f., perhaps even less."