SWEETEST BUTTER.
J MADE FROM DANTHOMA-FED i ' COWS. A Matarnata Record representative was chatting with a well known butter j expert who was passing through the j r'istrict the other day. and the ques- ' i.-. n of fodder and its effect upon butieriat was introduced. The expert said that although clover was regarded as "the life blood of the farm," he nevertheless did not think it was 'he ideal fodder lor dairy herds. He said ; it produced a stutfiness in the butter which could generally be detected by a sensitive palate. He considered it a fair fodder, but classed it a long way behind paspalum, lucerne, rye and even timothy. Then he grew reminiscent and staled how, when he was a young man, he managed a dairy factory in the Rodney County. At that time, he said, most of the northern pastures wore what is known as "native gra&s," 1 or more technically called danthonia. He then stated, with a sparkle of enthusiasm in his eye. that that primi- j rive grass produced "the sweetest j butter ever made." ''My word, it was I pood,'' he said, and then, after a ' pause, added, "what there was of it." BBgggß' '" ■'" I
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Otaki Mail, 12 March 1923, Page 4
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200SWEETEST BUTTER. Otaki Mail, 12 March 1923, Page 4
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