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BUTTER TRADE.

. O- ' VMM/ t O'»r "?A ■■ :•»•!. l l ,v ; 1 1 IK tHi patter on " Recent-Improvements in Agricultural J^fohineny.'M contributed by Mr Pidj&bn to the "Journal of the Society »/ JHi.'^iOttte' pfertinent'tbbservationftttwiKtfiiidi' pn;,the superior tact exhibited/by foreigner^ in the manufacture and markotingof butter to that displayed by our own dairying; industry. Mr -Pidgeon states that twenty years ago scar.Cfcly/.atfy '.foreign butter, was imported ilib Wits country, but now not a hundredth p^rt <ft the, butter oaten in Loudon i* of English origin. Great Britian, indeed, buys £12,000,000 worth of butter every year from the foreigner, a aumieqijallingfin vilue all her tea trade, or haflf her 4 ftfgW Mdc, and being nearly one-fifth of her greatest import—corn. Yet the climate, 1 ttte sbiV'the price o f cows, wages, and the cost of transport are all in favor of the native dairyman, who,* wittiiu'Werity years, has allowed a' trade equal to that in tea to slip through his fingeYs; Half of it v having bten surrenderei during the last ten years. The English farmer makes his two or ten dozou of butter one or twice a week, atid sends it, say, to the London market, where the retail butter, man must go, very early iii the morning, to make a selection from many hundreds of flats, each differing in quality from the other, and not very temptingly displayed in wrappings of cloth, or even old newspapers. Butter from Normandy or Denmark, on the other hand, comet for* ward in a very different way, Agents Attend the local markets, and buy tvll their produce from the farmers, whom they keep tdvtad of the qualities in vogue. This butter goes to the factory, where It is first mixed by machinery, and then put Up, nattily papered, in boxes holding a doaen 21b rolls. The contents of every box, distinguished by a given brand, are all exactly alike, so that the retailer Oan order from day to day with the certainty of getting just what he wants without any expenditure of time Or trouble. Foreign butter of equal quality commands a higher price and finds a readier sale than English, because of its marketable condition. The Rip Van Winkles of British dairy farms are at length awakening to this fact, and finding the horse gone, are looking around for help to shut the stable door. The Royal Agricultural Society of England is fully alive to this great national loss, and made an excellent move four or five yeais ago in establishing a working dairy as a feature of its annual shows. The butter worker is a device to which tlie French and Dutch owe much of their trade, because it enables them to amalgamate the butters of many farms and supply a constant quality to the faotor. In its best kuown form this machine consists of a revolving table, sloping from the centre to the circumference, upon which the butter is worked under a conical fluted roller, the expressed water and butter-milk flowing away by a peripheral channel. The butter is brought again and again to the roller by the attendant, using a pair of M'ooden " hands," and from iirst to last it is untouched by the fingers. The appliances for scientitio dairying are now, thanks, in a large measure, to the Royal Agricultural Society of Englaud, before British farmer* : but something remains to be done before they will win back the trade which the foreigner has taken away. Either fanners must associate and establish their own butter factories, or middlemen will do as they have done in France. A move has already been made in both directions. Mr Carrick has started a butter dairy near Carlisle, buying butter on a large scale, producing a very even and saleable sample, and, it is understood, doing prosperously. The Gillingham Dairy Farmers' Association, on the other hand, comprise eleven farmers, who send their milk to a common centre, with excellent results as to profits, and an extraordinary diminution of working expenses in comparison with those of an ordinary daivy. A trade of twelve millions per annum is not to be permanently lost without an effort. The economist and the engineer have shown how it may be recovered, and it remains for farmers, having realised what a mine of wealth may yet be found in dairying, to take a hint from the old saw, " Fascstct ah haste doccri," — Mark Lane Express.

The best thing out.— Out of debt. •' Mr Tennyson lives lierc, does he not?" enquired a stranger speaking to one near. "Yes he does."' "He is a gieat man" I " Well, I don't well know What you call great, but he only keeps One man servant, and he dosen't sleep in the house" 1 What agonies must the poet have endured who, writing of his lovp, assorted that he " kissed her under the silent etars," and found the compositor hnd made him declaro that he " kicked her under the cellar stairs !" It is not given to everyone, perhapa fortunately for the general peace, to be as ready at retort ns the critic to whom thfl following question was addressed by an artUt t— " Don't you think it is about time I exhibited something ?" Yes } a little talent," was the reply, Said an aotor whose private reputation Was none the best I *' They have cait mo for ft oharttater that t don't like, and I doubt whether I ought to take it or not." "Oh, take it by all means," urged Fogg —adding, under his bieath, "any character must be better than your own." There was an alarm of fire turned in from an Atlanta artiste studio Wednesday morning, but by the time the department got there the conflagaration had been subdued. "What was it a-fire?" asked Chief Ryan. "Colonel Bumgardner's portrait !" " How did it catch ?" " I had it nearly all finishedall except the nno.sande — and * hen I laid the proper colour on it she blazed up like a political bonfire !" " And what put him out?" "Water! Water will put out the colonel any time." President Grkvy is very popular in the mountain district of the Jura. On hia last trip to Mont-sous-Andrey, a contenarian who had known him as a boy wanted to see him after his high promo- , tion, and drove off to the chateau. M. Grdvy gave him a kind welcome and shook hands with him. The poor old man was quite overcome with joy. He tried to thank the President, but could only stammer out the words, "Ah Monsieur Gnsvy, now I have seen you, you may die !" A MBRCHANT of Berlin having fallen in love with an opera singer, purchased two dresses and sent them to her to make her choice, saying he would call to know her decision. iShortly, however, before the hour he had intended to set out on his errand, the merchant received from his beloved a billet doux to the following effect; — " Of the dresses you have sent ' I like one quite as well as the other. I will, in fact, keep both, so that you have no need to call." " I don t believe you have the water ' of the right temperature. You must get a thermometer," said a Jamaica mother to the new coloured nurse. •' What am dat ?" " It U an instrument by which you can tell if the water is too hot or too cold" "I kin tell dat ar without any ' instrument. Ef de chile turns blue, den de water am too cold ; and ef it turns red, den I know dat the water am too hot." ' ' Gbocers and ether who sell marmalade are in the habit of stating, as an additional recommendation of the commodity', that it is an excellent substitute for butter. - An old woman purchased some, believing . .it to possess all the properties of butler. ' Some time.afterwards she called on the . idealeri'and-said she had imposed on, "as -" it wasinae. substitute for butter at a', for tried; to iry fish in't, and they were i bufcoed'tb' * cinder." ; " ( <• * «" "*" * •f WJPS&ii-'BMvP John M«tct^n?te^ho 1l i»^/e "^M'tten^'df ''the' London t MisMonflry, ■y 'WboMip in'-Sotftherh, TJeeßiiattaipt^Has V>Wv%tiWfctK jfcfor'the.ilJfW^Ka^ - >~ tyttifo-toWTtimM Joi'lthe^Be^ti&iok

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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1720, 14 July 1883, Page 4

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BUTTER TRADE. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1720, 14 July 1883, Page 4

BUTTER TRADE. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1720, 14 July 1883, Page 4

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