San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-08
OUR BUTTER IS AL RIGHT,
Compares FaVOrably With
The Foreign Article.
SECRETARY WILSON HAS WENT
TO THE TROUBLE TO HAVE
COMPARISONS MADE.
ALI The Finest Butter OF LOndOn'S
Market Carefully Compared
With MinneSOta'S Creamery
Article And Only Two
Kinds 0utrank 1t

New York, July S.-Finding 1t diff
cult to get an unprejudiceG and defin-
lite comparison made in London be-
tween butter sent there by the United
States department of agriculture with
the best products of other countries,
Secretary Wilson directed his agent in
London to buy there representa- .e
packages of fine butter from varioGs
sources and send them in cold storage
to New York.
This was recently done and the for
eign lot includes cask of the best En-
glish (Dorsetshire) Danish and French
butter and boxes from Australia and
Irish creameries as well as rolls of
sweet" or unsalted butter, such as is
sent daily from Brittany and sells at
the highest price in the London mar
ket.
These foreign buffers were last week
critically examined by the leading but
ter merchants of New York and com
pared with packages reserved from
lot lately sent abroad by the depart
ment, made at creameries in Mime
sofa and Massachusetts.
Excepting the Australian, these but
ters were all about the same age.
The Danish, which ranks first on the
sailed butter supply of the English
markets, was a little newer and fresh
er than the Minnesota package.
The samples were examined by the
butter inspector, Healey, of the New
York Mercantile exchange, and Secre-
tary Wilson has received his report.
On scale of 100 points the Minneso-
ia creamery butter was marked 96B,
the Royal Danish 95 and the Massa-
chusetts butter a.
The last was a very small package,
had been kept three weeks and had
lost flavor, although evidently a very
hne article when fresh. The fresh
Brittanic rolls were also placed at 961s
The other samples were marked 80 and
below. The ony ones marked perfect
in grain, texture and body, were these
from Minnesota, Denmark and Brit
tany. Minnesota and Brittany Gun
salted) were both placed at 361k out of
a possible 40 for flavor, with Massa-
chusetts and Denmark following at IS
and no other above 81
This judgment was concurred in by a
majority of the merchants Goo or
more) who examined the samples.
Several English merchants were also
present, being in this country to in
vestigate our butter supply and make
purchases. They thought that some
of the foreign samples were hardly
representative of the best of their kind
obtainable in London, but they agreed
that the Danish and French samples
were fully up to the standard and
that the American samples shown were
quite equal to these and in some re-
spects superior. One of these English
buyers said he was ready TO contract
for an almost unlimited quantity of
butter equal to the tub of Minnesota
creamery shown, at one cent a pound
above the highest market quotations.
This, Secretary Wilson believes, is
very conclusive demonstration that
we make in this country as fine but
ter as that which Great Britain de- |
ponds upon, and we can deliver it in !
good condition in London IL that mar |
ket will pay satisfactory prices for it. |
The fresh Brittany rolls, so much |
admired, were quoted at % cents per |
pound wholesale in London last month |
and the Danish cakes at 20 and p |
cents. The Minnesota butter, thus
pronounced superior to the latter, sold |
n New York at the same time at is or |
IS cents and could be offered in London
az ~ or 20 cents at a handsome profit
Il