SNYDER HAS A PRESENT MADE HIM.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 867, 10 January 1878, Page 2

SNYDER HAS A PRESENT MADE HIM.

Mk Srimqeour, of Matawhero, has forwarded me an elegant roll of exhibition prize butter. He wan'.s ray opinion of it, as a judge of the article. My opinion of the butter exactly tallies with my opiniou of Mr Scrimgeour, 1 think so highly of both that I can't think any higher. 1 have tried the butter by aereral methods, and it was only the last experiment that was not satisfactory. I had a flounder boiled, upon which melted butter was employed. The batter vras Mr Scrirageour's, and it imparted to the flounder the flavor of a turbot. I think if there hau been more butter, added I should have got the taste of the lobster sauce, which generally ijoes with turbot. I also had the paste of a pie made with the same butter. The crust when it came out of the oven was so extremely light that it had all disappeared by the next morni .g — fled as I believe, t-ecause the boys of my family wete directed to look everywhere, but they could not find it. Tney werialso of opinion that it had flown away, owing to its extreme light* ies~. fo try its going qualities I requested Mie sai 1 boys to partake of it to the full extt'.nt of their desires, an! l«11 me what they thouarhf. of it. £u about an hour they calleJ me qttv and said they couid not give an opinion on the batter as they had coiirtumed the whole before they had time to form an opinion upon their convictions. They wanted a farther supply. It was very sad, and I told them so. This was the experiment leferred to as having failed. With respecttosoimcandles which Mr Scrimgeour sent me to jud^e, I can speak in the most decided terms of commendation. Before I tried one of these candles I had been accustomed to write with the aid of a two burner kerosene lamp with a dioptric refivtotor. Now with the aid of a single candle I can read the very smallest print with fluency, and tell the time of an evening by the kitchen clock as I lie on my parlor sofa f May such enterprise prosper. While I am on the subject I may inform people generally that it is my intention, should they concur in my ▼ ews, to judge of other things besides candles and batter. lam an excellent judge of poultry when trussed; also I am a judge of al kinds of dairy produce. I could form a good opinion of a cow in full milk, or a fatted, calf that the owner wouldn't mind being killed for the purpose of testing its quality. I could judge a well made chest of drawers or a four-legged bedstead, or a Newfoundland dog, or a Government apuointment, or a home made cheese, or any other: trifles of a like character, My charges are not high, At present Ido not look so much for remuneration as practice in my profession.— -" Poverty Bay Standard,'