FACTORY-MADE BUTTER.

Patea Mail, 24 February 1882, Page 3

FACTORY-MADE BUTTER.

A correspondent to an Otago journal, arguing in favor of factory-raado butter, says :

Butter-makers are not always blamable for the rancid rubbish which is sold m grocers’ shops. For the most part the butter is rough salted, and tumbled into the firkin irrespective of color or sample. Very often the firkins made use of have had rancid butter in them before, and are merely scoured out with hot water and soda ; and though they look clean they still retain sufficient byntric acid to spoil the entire mass placed within them. Then it may occur? that an odd pound may be slightly gone in such case the whole firkin will be inoculated, and in a short time spoiled. In fact, with very few exceptions, the New Zealand storekeeper’s method of preserving salt butter is a losing one, and calculated to produce dissatisfaction to all parties. The correspondent concludes with a suggestion that Government should appoint inspectors of dairy produce, and says cave would then be taken, by farmer and grocer, that the article in question was fairly dealt with, and no reasonable means would be left unused to promote the credit of the latter trade. It would in effect add some thousands of pounds sterling to the current revenue of the colony, by an export trade which would produce better prices far than are at present obtained ; besides freeing our over-stocked markets, and thus raising the colonial prices.