POTTING BUTTER FOR EXPORT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1680, 31 December 1887, Page 4

POTTING BUTTER FOR EXPORT.

A lady (housekeeper), just arrived from England, writes to the Auckland Weekly News as follows :— u I was much interested in reading amongst your articles a topic, on '.butter,' and the export of it to England. . It would,.indeed, be a great boon to the people of England to get good butter at a reasonable price. At the present time they are paying Is 6d and Is 9d per lb, and sometimes at Christmas and during a drought in summer, or a

Very hot season when it cannot be churned, I have paid 2s per lb for farmhouse butter. The poor, in fact, respectable people, trying to make both ends meet, cannot look at it, and some are forced to buy dripping at, 7d or 8d per lb, and butterine at lOd and Is per lb, to hbo in its place. Now, if farmers, etc., here were to pot their butter for exportation during the cheap season it could be bought, I suppose, in England for lid And Is all the year round, and then leave a profit for the wholesaler and retailer, etc. Of course, there are many who would look askance at it at first, as they did to the New Zealand mutton; but, like it, the prejudice would soon subside, more especially so as it could be labelled ' butter.' I will just add for the benefit of some that the English law will not permit adulteration of any kind."