UNSALTED BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8150, 6 July 1906, Page 2

UNSALTED BUTTER.

A NEW ASPECT. Messrs. Andrew, Clement & Sous, the well-known dairy produce merchants of London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, writing by a recent mail to their New Zealand agents, Messrs J, B. MacEwan & Co., advise as follows: We are "Freetraders" enough to believe that the producer ought to cater for the demand, and where there is a legitimate demand, make use o ? t for his own benefit. We think it would be wrong to prohibit the sale of unsaltcd butter, as undoubtedly there is a large and honest demand for this article. Of course we must recognise that a very largo part of the demand for unsalted in the past has been from butter fakers, but because certain firms fake butter, this is no reason that others who have a legitimate trade for unsalted should be preyentjd from getting same, and we think that Now Zealand will never stop the faking business by prohibiting the export of unsa ! ttd.

There seems to be a great deal of ignorance on the part of manufacturers regarding unsalted, and to find out the economic aspect of the subject wo had an expert conduct some experiments in Ireland as to the relative costs of salted and unsalted. From these we learn (much to our surprise) that unsalted costs from 3 per cent, to 3J per cent, over salted, and we have had this confirmed by a report issued by the Canadian Government of a series of experiments conducted in Canada, which proved that unsalted cost fully 4 per e< n l .. more than salted When producers realise the premium which they nqure for unsalted) and insist on having it, then we believe the demand for this article will be curtailed Yet, notwithstanding all this, there will be a certain amount of trade at all timos for unsalted butter, and why should New Zealand not share in it with others ?