Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, JULY 6 1905.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42744, 6 July 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

THURSDAY, JULY 6 1905.

2 his above all—to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day 2hou canst not then be false to any man Shalcesneare.

The Dairy Province (published in Vancouver) of April 25th, contains the following splendid New Zealand testimony to the exButter collency of New Zenin Canada, land butter:— Eastern Canadian manufacturers who have been disposed to ridicule the competition of New Zealand butter in the British market are seriously disturbed at the fact that it lias made its appearance on the Dominion market with the home-made article, and ii actually meeting with favour, Its superior excellence is established by tne fact taat when disposed for sale in this country it retains its flavor, much longer than the Canadian article, despite the fact of its long journey across half the globe. If it can bo brought hero and drive our own products out of the home m irket, there is little likelihood of the Canadian, article [

being successful alongside it in Great Britain. The people in the East have recently been asking the reason for the success with which it has met, but as a trade paper points out, there is little difficulty in making this point clear. The New Zealand Government understands the value of a good reputation and prevents the shipping of anything but the best article to the foreign market. The producer has jeen taught to take care not only with he manufacture of his butter but likewise with its packing, and the Government supplements all precautions of the individual by rigorous supervision, Canada finding that her butter, as at present manufactured, cannot compete with ours will strive all in her power to improve it until it is, at. least, of equal excellency, and so keep her hold on her own as well as British markets. A prosperous butter trade is the life and soul of a dairying country and con tinued efforts must be made to keep up the high standard of the staple. produce.' To fall back, even so little, from the high standard required for ready sale would be to so injure the industry that it would take a longtime to recover and pass up again to the standard it had fallen from. It is not a success'once gained, for ever gained. No !itis a success that must be carefully attended to and carefully fostered, if the trade is to be retained. On the farm, in the factory and at the grading stations untiring care must be continued to improve the, milk, make the butter and grade it correctly so as to keep up its high standard of excellence and purity. If this is done the trade will be secured against the keenest competition, for in butter excellence not cheapness is the test. The demand for what is kcown as ‘ gilt edge ’ butter is greater than the supply and the country producing it in sufficient and regular quantities will soon become the richest dairying country in the world.