SWEETEST BUTTER.

Shannon News, 27 February 1923, Page 3

SWEETEST BUTTER.

MADE FROM D AN.THONIA-FED COWS. A Matamdta Record representative was chatting with a well known butter . expert who was passing through the .’i.strict the other day, and the ques--1 u of fodder and its effect upon butterfat was introduced. The expert said that although clover was regard-.-ed as “the life blood of the farm,” .he did not think it was the ideal fodder for dairy herds. He said lit produced a stuffiness 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 paspalura, lucerne, rye and even timothy, I Then he grew reminiscent and stat-] ed how, when he was a young man, I he managed a dairy factory in the j Rodney County. At that time, he i said* most of the northern pastures were what is known as "native grass,” or more'technically called danthonia. He then stated, with a sparkle of .enthusiasm in his eye, that that primitive grass produced “the sweetest butter ever made.” “My word, it was good,” he said, and then, after a pause, added, “what there was of it.”