DAIRYING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 397, 26 November 1891, Page 2

DAIRYING.

A London correspondent writes:— One gets rather tired of trying to persuade New Zealand dairy producers that there are certain months in the year—to wit, July, August and September—when it is nothing short of idiocy to send butter to England. It is, however, even more trying to oue to find that, sfter a constant reiteration of the fact chat only high-class stud" should be shipped, te discover in a London factor's warehouse a paroel of newly-arrived butter, tb.6 only legitimate location for which would be the hog tub or the grease box of a locomotive. Such was my experience recently when calling on Mr Henry Gray, of the firm of Messrs Goey and Go. He exhibited to my special benefit a number of tubs of butter which arrived recently in the Matata as ordinary cargo. The stuff wits a disgrace to Akaroa. In the first place, it had been badly manufactured ; in the second, it had bean kept on your side far too loop (I suppose the exporter fancied he might muke more money by holding it over for a week or two); and to crown all, the stuff has been sent as ordinary cargo, and subjected to every variation of temperature obtaining 'twixt here and New Zealand. A Whitechapel dealer, whose special mission in life seems to be to rid factors of all questionable stuff in the shape of butter and cheese which they cannot dispose of in the ordinary course, had come to the conclusion that this particular lot was " too rough " even for him. As re gtrds cheese, Mr Gray told me the market at the present time is extremely dull. The best American sorts are hard to sell at 445, whilst ordinary New Zealand realises 80s to 36s with difficulty, the finest quality selling slowly at about 455. Some of the New Zealand cheese lately to hand hns been of a very poor quality, and totally unfit for the English market. For the ensuing season the prospects of New Zealand dairymen are good. Advices from America point to a shortage in cheese for export, go that good New Zealand stuff will have a fair show later. It may be well to remind colonial producers that produce should be to hand here early in November.