The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

Corresiuntbenct.

DORSET BUTTER.

To the Editor of the Dorset County Ezpress and
Agricultural Gazette.

[The following subject, dealing with the proepects
of value of an important production in which our
county excels, we have thought it might at this time
be interesting to the general reader and the agri-
culturist. Among the most important dairy farmers
of the county it has been most extensively circu-
lated :—]
• 8114—Permit me the favour of your kind attention to
the system of business I have bad the pleasure of intro-
ducing to the Dorset dairymen, whereby all inter-
mediate agencies, factor/4e, and travelling expenses,
ice., with which the article of weekly Dorset butter has
been heretofore charged in its progress from production
to consumption, for the simple duty of superintending
collection in the county.

The purchase of • tub of • cooper, attaching an address
label, delivering it at a railway station in your district,
is a duty sorely as well performed by the producer him-
self, and thereby become "his own butter factor," as
by a country factor on his behalf.
Former seasons our system of selling on amount of
the dairyman, and immediately remitting the proceeds
per own order on the Bank of England, oonvertible
immediately at any bank in your i-uitriot, has given
great satisfaction. We see nothing so gloomy or
ominous this season to warrant a supposition that we
should not be equally well regarded by our friends and
patrons.
...-
Low qualities of butter will undoubtedly not be so
well taken, enterprise beifig unfortunately checked by
the American complication; the industrial class is not
so well employed in all branches of manufacturing
operations. . . .

The prospective events of this year will not, however,
I think, ucfavourably affect the consumption of the
finest description of weekly Dorset butter; doubtless
our London season will receive some oompensation for
other adverse circumstances by the numerous foreign
visitors—the presence of the travelling wealthy, whose
London visits are only occasional, and provincialists,
that the International Exhibition will tempt to make •
temporary sojourn in London,
We say of our system of business—try it. The sale
of your goods in this market is not prejudiced by any
purchases ef our own, by which your interest would be
adversely effected by bought goods, that would be sup-
posed to have a preference sale in • lowering market.
A fine dairy of butter, makes at all times its full
value in the London market, whilst in the country it is
often bought at the price of a neighbour's middling
dairy. This is only one of the many violations of the
spirit of fair-play the vicious contracting syste m has
fostered. Whatever the dangers of a dairyman's
position, and whenever they have been made apparent
to him, he has not been free to withhold his gooa. It
is an advantage, therefore, to know that the day a dairy-
man is dissatisfied, or thinks he can do better in any
ether market in the sale of his produce, he is entirely
free not to send again. His risk of payment is confined
to the one consignment he dispatches, and be can easily
ascertain for himself whether, at present, that amounts
to any risk at all.

Soliciting the favour of your esteemed commands,

Faithfully yours,
HENRY WEBBER.
Brewer Street, Golden Square, Loudon,
February 8, 1882.

Two tradesmen of Leeds have been committed for
trial, charged with having stolen a bond for MOO from
the 011106 of Messrs. Wilson and Bailey, architects. One
of the accused is a master joiner, and the other is a
butcher, both being in a respectable line of business.
The joiner had oontraeted for the building of some
houses in Leeds, and the butcher, who is the cousin of
the other, had become his bond for the amount above
stated that the contract would be dilly performed.
This had not been done, and the butcher bad received
notice that the bond would be enflamed. The accused
have been admitted to bail.