FOREIGN COMPETITION IN BUTTER.
A OOOD deal of late has boon said and written on the subject of foreign competition iu our butter markets, and what our fanners might and could do to increase both the quality and the output of English butter, so as to secure fir them-' selves some of the gigantic sums which we yearly pay to the foreign maker. At the present rate of progress, however, there is little likelihood that our home production will soon seriously interfere with the imports of foreign butter, even if our native resources are ever likely to be equal to our homo consumption. Among the sources of foreign supply on which we largely draw, the fresh butter from Normandy can hardly be beaten, for in that country tile manufacture of sweet butter of uniform quality has been brought practically to perfection. The butter is neatly made up to suit the requirements of our markets, and the shortness of the distance to be traversed, and the excellent boat service, ensure its arrival in perfect condition. Salt butter used to bo largely imported from Holland, but owing to the fact that Holland is notorious for the manufacture of margarine, and that the exports of butter and of margarine have not been, to put it lightly, kept as distinct as they might have been, Dutch butter has fallen into decidedly low repute. Another country commanding a large export of butter to England is Denmark. It is well known that during the last twenty years very much has been done on the part of the Danish Government, as well as on the part of Danish Agricultural Societies and of influental individuals, to stimulate improvements in the dairy, and the result is that Denmark annually sends us hundreds of thousands of casks of butter of high and uniform quality. Importers well know that not all the butter sold as Danish is produced in Denmark, but that Norway, Sweden, and North Germany share to a considerable extent in the trade carried 011 iu this country under the name of Denmark. Within the last year Sweden has taken some pains to make her produce known under its proper name, and there is now on foot in Schelswig-Holstein a movement to gain independent recognition for the butter manufactured in that province • —N.B. Agriculturist.
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Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2430, 7 February 1888, Page 3
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385FOREIGN COMPETITION IN BUTTER. Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2430, 7 February 1888, Page 3
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