BUTTER-FACTORIES.
[TO THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Just a few lines in reply to Mr. Wolff. I have often recommended co-operative butter-factories where there is no retail sale for butter. Proprietary butter-factories do more harm than good to farmers. In Scotland they have been paying only 4d. a gallon for milk during the summer. My contention is that, just now, it would be unwise to enter into fresh enterprise in butter-making, prices being unremuner- ative. Mr. Wolff appears to think that they pay the Danes ; but this is not in accord with what is stated in the latest Consular Report on the subject. Last winter, in consequence of the great glut of Australasian butter, prices caused alarm in Denmark, the result being proposals for combination to raise prices, which are impracticable. I venture to predict that, if prices should be as low during the coming winter as they were last winter, either Australasia or Denmark will diminish the output.—I am, Sir, &c., Highgate, October 7th. WILLIAM E. BEAR.
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