MORE VITAMINES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 11

MORE VITAMINES

NZ. BUTTER BETTER THAN DANISH PATHOLOGISTS’ OPINIONS Butter from New Zealand often contains more vitamines than Danish because here the cows are kept L„'green pastures all the year round and in Denmark the animals have to be stall-fed. Though lie still believes that the New Zealand product is the best, Dr. W. Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland ttn «nital, who has returned after a tour f Denmark, has now a great respect • r the methods of the Danes. The nanish dairy produce will always seriiiiply compete with Dominion butter, he says. CO-OPERATIVE PRINCIPLE The wonderful development of the operative principle impressed him during his visit, which was made with *' delegation of Scottish grocers, touring the country at the invitation of the Government of Denmark. -The farmers seem to take their instructions from central authorities,” he said, “with the result that the products are very uniform in quality. For instance, there is a certain type of feed tor fowls used all over the country, the consequence being that the Danish egg is uniform.” Every care was taken to see that the butter for export arrived fresh and wholesome. One innovation was the tamping of the churning date on the boxes. The celanliness and scinetific methods of the industry impressed the delegation. PASTEURISATION In Denmark cream was pasteurised for the making of butter. This was more or less essential as the use of preservatives was prohibited. . p r . Gilmour said he was certainly in favour of the pasteurisation of milk. *1 was told by one or two people, whose opinions must be respected, that Xe\v Zealand butter in England was suffering from having no preservatives in it,” he said. “They stated that once it left cold storage it tended to depreciate in quality very rapidly. I was unable to go further into the matter, but this is certainly a question that requires careful watching, or New Zealand butter might quickly, lose its fine reputation.”