FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1915, Page 8

FARM AND DAIRY.

BUTTKR PRICKS'. A ronvsnondent writes to the ITawera Star: ] knew Taranaki in Hie da,v* every pound nt' butter prudiKv.l was I) y tiif old *Nf» of band rhnrnin?. | and often many Ik.iik had to In* put hi ' at thi« lire-uine work Ij.'iiii'c ivni'f* were ulit.uii"d. Jhe Mui'ii'i war came m, and nearly all the Inntcr m.iken I.>'in;.', he'll driven nil' ibeir farms. bulletbceamf u lio.'iiry, tiie market price iV.r any produced Int-aily rearhine lis to -is |MT ]ionnd. Wis jiritv xe»* tilmo*l |iro- ; biliilivc for many families. anil imp often heard of funic ehildi'cii lieini;' served with "lircud ami scrape" (dripping in lieu "f Invad and butter. However. Taylor and Watt, of Waniiamii, became public benefactors bv importing in small ca-Jcs from An.-iralia and elsewhere, and a fail' proportion of ibis reached New l'lv-_ mouth. wle. re it was retailed, at a (2s or thereabouts per pound) which illallied "bread and scrape" to be alian dulled. This butter was c.\'eecdin!_'lv salt. and before used tnr (lie table liad to be well wa-iied. In anni" case.-, it was rancid; bui. so ;;ro;it was the necessity Unit people were nlml of it. .11 anv form. We are hearine a ;;ood deal about t!ie pi-ice of butter as a result, if the present war. and it is snid that the eliarees are now reaching a prohibitive basis so far as uiauv families are <v'iecrncd, lm( it is hardly likely to reach the IviiO fiu'.iro. Where the relief is to come from on this invasion is hard to -a v. because every country seems m b.' in'the siiine position. If the innumerable butter-makers of Taranaki cannot caw the-situation, (hen \vr shall IH'" I '- übly have to ;.n back to ''iir.wl and sera pp.''