Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Tons of Butter. [ARTICLE]

Tons of Butter.

New York City is surfeited with butter. There are now 13,000,000 pounds litored away in that city and vicinity and the supply is increasing at the rate of 3,000,000 pounds per week. The end is not yet, for the country reports plenty of good feed and the cows are in a prosperous condition. Tht export trade, although pretty satisfactory, is not what it should be, and one merchant Dinted that the small amount of butter exported was, in a certain measure, due to dishonesty on the part of some exporters. Vile, adulterated stuff has been shipped to Europe apd sold as genuine American batter. The consumers were not slow in finding out the imposition, and the result was a prejudice against American butter. European dealers turned their eyes to other countries for their supply. It is true that most of the fine table batter remains ih this country, and most inferior grades and butter whose flavor has been affected are shipped to Europe, where they are skillfully doctored and improved. The average quantity exported from New York each week has been about 500,000 packages at this season of the year. During the past six days 860,000 pounds were exported.