THE BUTTER INDUSTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2928, 21 April 1891, Page 2

THE BUTTER INDUSTRY.

TO THE EDITOU. Sib,—l have been scanning some letters in your paper re butter. The question wants discussing, discussion may lead to improvement, for if there is anything in the country that requires improvement it is the great bulk of the Btutf called butter. In my travels I enter many establishment* and I find good butter in very few. Storekeepers also inform me that really good butter is always scarce. I have seen them sorting up a box fit to send to town, and a hard job they have of it. All reforms are tedious and hard to bring about, and the improvement in thu manufacture of butter seems especially so. Brought up to make it as their mothers used to do they keep on in the same old groove, and at the mention that the chalky, pasty looking lump of grease encircled in ancient calico is not gilt-edged, their hair is" ris." "You may hit me, kick me, call me anything but a lady and I'll forgive—but don't say a word agin my butter, why it's bee-u-tiful. I've made butter these twenty years and my mother before me, etc." What oan be done with such orass ignorance except by some system that will catch the young, for the old are past redemption ? I would comiwl such spoilers to eat all they make. But no! They are so innooulated with the twang that they fondly imagine it the correct thing, and continue manufacturing the odious stuff to the bitter end. Mrs Heywood Orisp says some people can never make good butter, but they are in the minority—l say that they are a vast majority, Roam round the Waikato, visit the places where lots of butter is made, how many are fit for the purpose ? Not many. Whence this flavour of old buots, rotting potatoes, and other luxuries, because the odour cf these delectable articles are taken up by the cream, strengthened by old association aud carefully carried through in the butter. How is it possible to make a deoent articlo in such surroundings? The factory system is I grant a vast improvement on this, and will no doubt progress rapidly as the operatives are trained to the work. A travelling dairy expert opening a school for a time in centres about the the country would after a time save the community a sum in the altered values of butter to which his salary would be a fleabite. I rnust not trespass further (in your space, anc) only hope aoine that see this will repent, mend their evil ways, aud give us something that we can eat.—J am, etc., Duummkh,