DAIRYING HINTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1793, 22 September 1888, Page 3

DAIRYING HINTS.

Mr Meadows, the London representative of a produce firm, while on a visit to the Wairarapa, gave the people of Greytown a hint or two on dairy matters. Among other things he told them that New Zealand butter had been sent to Denmark and manipulated, then sent to England again, where it was sold at a profit. The local paper remarks on this: — “ What a comment upon our manufacture. But it is true, nevertheless. In conversation with a good judge of butter the other day, in Carterton, he said he once looked into a store in Wellington and saw a lot of greasy, dirty stuff which would not sell. It was Wairarapa butter! ‘ Make me a bid,’ said the seller. ‘ I’ll give you 3d a pound for it,’ said the visitor, ‘ You can have it,’ was the reply. The lot was brought back to the Wairarapa, worked up, and sent back \ again to Wellington, and the enterprising purchaser got 7d a pound for it. '1 his brings to mind an incident related to us recently. Some Wellington bacon was sent over to West- j port when the digging* started, but * even the diggers didn’t like it. It wouldn’t sell at any fair price, so it was resolved to send it to England. And that very bacon came back again and was sold in Wellington as Irish bacon at then current price.”