The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68
Better
Better.
The great drawback to the profitable sale of our butter here and [unclear: elsewhere] uneven character of our supplies. Some of the potted butter coming into this market the very primest quality, while again there is a considerable amount of inferior [unclear: red] the price for which must be very disappointing to the farmer. The butter [unclear: trade] country can never be on a satisfactory footing until butter is made on the factory [unclear: pri] and put up in even packages to suit the market to which it is being sent. The [unclear: loss] Colony from the present unsatisfactory condition of things must amount to many those of pounds per annum.
Donald Stronach,
[unclear: Mam] Dunedin,September, 1888.