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ment to inferior butter. The whole system of dealing 

 in Cork Market needs to be changed. As was said to 

 me by a great butter-factor, " Cork Market keeps down 

 the price even of good butter by its great mass of mid- 

 dling and inferior butter hanging on the skirts of good 

 butter." 



Till the markets are altered, those who make good 

 butter had better seek a market in England for them- 

 selves. 



When the promised Minister of Agriculture is ap- 

 pointed, it is certain one of the first benefits he will 

 confer on Irish farmers will be the opening and wholly 

 altering Cork Market. 



As good butter as any in the world can be made in 

 Ireland. That butter now does not pay us well is partly 

 our own fault in not making first-rate butter, partly that 

 of the middlemen we allow to get rich at our expense 

 in markets like Cork. It is the French dealers who 

 have made the value of French butter, by their influ- 

 ence on producers, and excellent market arrangements. 



W. BENCE JONES. 



LISSELAN, July 20, 1879. 



