The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

agriculture.

DORIETIIIIIRE BUTTER TRADE—PAST, PP.NSKP?. AND
FUTURE. —llr. Henry Webber, Dorset butter agent,
writes to us eel ioneere : —The liberal rO•pOOSID and in-
creaming eatecue our 'yahoo of business has received
from the mod important dairy farmers of the county
of Dorset, the evidenee of extended confidence thus
, early in the moon presenting itself in an enlarged circle
of correspondence and inquiry from all parts of the
county, juitilles my presenting my Mends and patrons
those feature. of the 0010iDE sesison with the article of
hutter—eeen from the distributot's point of view—of the
probable causes that will operate upon constunption,
and limit or extend the demand, and as • consequence
favourably or unfavourably affect value, and contribute
to make the price for the .0•1011. When thome proba-
bilities are presented to the judgment of the producer,
who. uniting them with hie own views of the prospect
of supply. the material is theta formed for • more reli-
able cpinion of the season's proopecta and future 'otos.
The stock of Irish butter at public wharfs and ware-
house.. in London, stande,on the Slat of January, 1863,
at 22,479 casks. against 11,230 casks in the correspond-
ing date of 1862 : whilst of foreign batter the stock on
January 31st, 1863, is 34,730 casks. A lower range of
prices during the winter has given us • larger de-
livery, evidencing a larger consumption, notwithatand-
ing the depression amoopt the Labouring dooms
necessarily attending oar suspended commercial rela-
tions with America, and the reactionary influenoe of a
charitable exhaustive million, to palliate the low of
seven million, of wages for reproductive wealth, re•
sewing labour providentially • also it mast not be for-
gotten that a mild winter h;ta been extremely favour-
able for the continuance of public works, and the
general employment of the labouring climes of the
metropolis. The large stook of butter above referred
to, ea greatly in excess of any winter's stock of late
years, is, given such a mrofaston of choice, that salted
autumn or kept-back Dorset butter has been of very
difficult sale. and could only be pushed into sale in
retail quantitied, or any favourable or accidental op.
portunity. Fresher-inade foreign —American sum-
mered in ice—and other qualitiee quit* super-
seding its winter sale, at anything like ac•
oeptable prices, or the rates of value that was
current when the same butter was settled
down. For new Dorset butter—the moon and its
circumstances promising a full average supply during
the Spring—we expect a satisfactory range of prices
brie; at the West-end of London we look for more
than any average demand from the well•to-do classes.
We are hopeful that the Prince of Wales's marriage and
the event stimalating by its virtuous pities the
marriage market no as to gladden the hearts of the
Heleravian mothers—that many trades that have
languished during two yean of court mourning (the
Deehess of Kent's death followed by the Prince Con-
soft's), that thou* trades, and they are generally the
well-paid talented and skilled artiaan who minister to
the comfort and luxury of the wealthy—they, at least.
will be fully engaged. The conclusion we then arrive
at is, that for the Spring we look for • satisfactory
price for fine dairies of new Dorset butter ; indeed
early makes of lies qualities is now very much wanted.
We particularly invite,and should generally esteem the
recommendation of those our friends who are pleased
with our system of business, and *hall be very happy
to forward address cards address labels, or addressed
envelopes, which attached to the firkin, insures its
ode receipt when delivered at the nearest railway
station. With system of our business each transaction ,
is completed in itself. so that the day a dairyman feels
dissatisfied, or thinks he knows another market that
would better serve his ifterest, he is entirely free not :
to send again till it suits him. We remit immediately
the butter is 'old a Bank of England order for nett
Premeds, convertible immediately at any beak in the
district, and feel earnestly assured that early makers of ,
large dairies of line quality would, by the adoption of '
our system of business, reap an advantage on the season,
the result of which they would have substantial reason
to be extremely well satisfied with. Soliciting the favour
of your esteemed confidence and commands,— faithfully
roam—HURT Wining."