AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1577, 12 August 1882, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

Ri.<;aki>im: tho iccent shipment of butter per Piolos, which was supposed to have been a failuie, tho Ait&/)a(fnum has the following :— A part of this butter was sent ffoinc fresh, and made up in the form of pi hits, just as fresh butter would be sent to market lieie. It was understood th.it this would not be frozen, but be mci oly placed in a sepaiate chamber adjacent to the Tieezing-rooin, by which arrangement, it Mas thought, it would be kept at a tcmpciature sufficiently low to ensure its arrival in sound condition. This plan was adopted as being in Mr Wilson's e&timation better than freezing, to which, indeed, there are several objections that avc need not at present speak of. By telegrams from London on the arrival there of the Protos our reader learnt that the greater part of the butter had turned out unsound, and, as no qualifying report was received at later date, Mi* Wilson's, it was feared, had hhaied the late of tho bulk. The result, however, lias turned out very differently from a failure. The London agents wrote on April 7th, after remarking on the length of the voyage made by the Protos : — ' We found 1). Wilson's, of Egerton, fresh butter in prints in excellent condition and quality, and had no trouble in selling it at 138b per lOOlbs, for which we enclose draft. This lot of butter certainly was superior to any we have seen m our 20 years' experience in the London market, and we shall be glad to receive any quantity you can send us, as we are sure to find high prices for it. We had the pleasure of showing it to Sir Henry Parkes, and he was very much pleased with it. ' This butter, be it remembered, was made in the height of the spring season, when the article in this country is hardly worth sending to mm ket. Owing to the voyage having been inordinately long for a steamship, the butter was more than five months old before it was sold in London ; had it arrived six weeks or two months earlier, it would have met with a winter market, instead of the early spring one, ' and would have fetched a pioportionately higher figure. The price — Is 4UI per lb— yields, however, a very capital return on the price of butter in Victoria. This is good news for our dairymen,

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