SHIPLOAD OF BUTTER.
AUSTRALIAN -SUMMER SUPPLIES FOR- WINTRY ENGLAND. When the good ship Arawa, inward bound from New .Zealand, reached London last month, says the “Daily Mail,” she had within her strong iron sides 3,404.8001 b. of grass-fed butter destined for the English breakfast table. Without such contributions from the dairies of. New Zealand and Australia England in'winter time would, according to experts, depend for her butter supply upon the stall-fed output of Europe and the home-country. The reason, is simple. To-day when the sleet and rains of winter are with us in England the summer sun shines in the Antipodes, and the cattle are in the heyday of their milk-producing season, whereas north of the Equator cattle which are to be milk-productive must he at this time of the year carefully nurtured in stalls and fed artificially. The Board of Trade returns for 1909 and 1910 show very clearly the marked increase in our imports of butter from Australasia-: —: 1909. 1910 Jan. —Nov. 30 Jan. —N0v.30 64,531,1521 b 91,536,7041 b
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3155, 27 February 1911, Page 2
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171SHIPLOAD OF BUTTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3155, 27 February 1911, Page 2
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