The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-24
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Butter Trade Suffers as Result
Of Great Conflict.
Nadon 10 Worries Greatest Dutter
Exporter In Normal TImes-Prod.
uet Superior to That Of Any
Other Country.


Washington.-How the great DAN
i'm butter trade has suffered from
the present war and why little DEN.
mark is the worlds biggest butter ex.
porter In normal times is shown in
the following statement, prepared by
the National Geographic society.
One Of the many strands in the
wonderfully complex web of world
commerce that has felt the severe
strain of war is the Danish butter
trade. Danish butter, Russian caviar.
French champagne. Norwegian sar-
dimes, and Strassburg pate de foie
gras are articles standing alone
among their several kinds-snecial
injuries that Fate dispenses only to
her favorites The butter of Denmark
has been famous around the world
and heretofore it sold everywhere
tnat people were to be found with
wealth enough to develop special
tastes. The war has largely inter.
fered with this rich industry.
"Denmark's butter brought the high
est price in fancy markets, and IT was
considered superior to that of any
other nation. 1t was used by the emf
cures In North and South America.
South Africa. in the East and West
indies, in Egypt, India and throughout
Europe. Good Danish butter sold at
one dollar a pound, in tins of one.
two and three pounds. Cows in other
lands seem Just as sleek and the
grass grows elsewhere just as sue
culent, but. despite these general ad
vantages, no other country has been
able to make butter that will stand
the changes OF climate so well, or
that tastes so crisp and sweet
Dairymen in Holland, Sweden and
siberia have done their utmost 10
produce butter that could vie with
the make of the Danes without sue
cess. The best buffers Of these coun-
tries are worth less than half as
much. Scientific dairy operators in
Germany also failed to duplicate II
Even from the milk of the cows of
the United states. animals favored be-
yond most others, it has been found
impossible to produce a grade of but
ter than can compete with the Danish
article.
Danish butter Is proof against all
climate. Butter, when shipped through
the hot zones, melts and remains in
a liquid state as long as it is exposed
to the tropic heat. Danish butter
goes through this test, melts with the
heat and hardens with the cold. and
still retains the wholesome sweetness
OF its flavor, while other butter loses
It's sweetness and flavor under these
changes.
The Danes do not explain the SUI
periority Of their product. They as
sert that there Is no secret in their
process of butter manufacture, but.
nevertheless, they are reticent about
taking strangers through their great
packing establishments. The Danish
commission houses buy the butter
which they pack from small dairies
all over the country. some of their
material coming from as far away as
hAo law DulltTt 80 InoN
say, is taken and mixed carefully at
their central packing stations. and is
worked over again in order to free il
from every particle of milk. The
packers insist that the raw butter
which they buy must be prepared
only from sterilized milk and cream.
and that 1t must be prepared in scieu-
tifically clean surroundings.
After these packers have reworked
the butter, they color it uniformly
with the juice of the ordinary garden
beet, and pack it in hermetically
sealed tins. They maintain that thew
use no preservatives or chemicals
whatsoever. Nevertheless. their but
ter has consistently held the ad.
vantage. and. until the wars out
break, it formed the basis of one of
Denmark's most thriving and widest
known articles of export"