THAT SHOW BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 299, 14 December 1908, Page 3

THAT SHOW BUTTER.

To the Editor. Sir,—l regret that 1 should not have answered earlier Mr. Cameron's letter, but I have to do my newspaper writing just when my factory duties permit. 1 stated iu my reply to " Competitor," who turns out to be Mr. Cameron, that the box of butter in question was made up of two days' make, and not even successive days. Mr. Cameron asks why there should have been 48 hours between the J time I started to fill that box and the I time it was finished. As the dates marked on the box will show, the butter ( was made on October 21st and 23rd. On the 21st we made 17 '/ 3 boxes of export butter, and the half-fil.ed box was placed in the cool chamber with tbe rest. Next day, the 22nd, the whole of the make was made up into pound pats for our town supply, and export butter would not do for this trade, as it contains a L'ertaiu amount oi preservative. On the iord we made export butter again, and .ised up that half-box. Uow 1 get that rniform colour day by day, so that the ' .wo days' make dove-tailed so beauti-

fully i:i that particular box, is part of my stock-in-trade, and I'm not giving ' it away. Suffice to say, the colour wjs not impaired, as my fellow-manager thinks it should have beea. Mr. Caiuvrou says, "If Mr. Rutherford can convince me that putting two days' butter in one box is detrimental to the flavour 1 shall be very pleased to hear from him." My experience ha-, been that a

box of butter has not the same chance of being clean-flavoured if, instead of being boxed and nailed immediatc'y after manufacture, and thus protected, it is left open in the cool room to absorb the odours inseparable from a cool chamber, to be affected in temperature by the frequent opening and dosing oi the door, and again affected in temperature by being brought into the butte--room to be, fijled. This experience is not at all peculiar to myself. It is also well-known that flavour frequently varies from day to day, from causes over which only the suppliers have control. If there is any further information I can give your correspondent, I shail be pleased to have a chat with him at our factory.—l am, &c., J. RUTHERFORD, Manager, Bell Block Dairy Factory.