114 BRITISH DAIRYING. 



These foreigners, indeed, much to their credit, laid themselves 

 out to win their way in our markets, and they have succeeded. 

 It is a question of uniformity, and nothing else, this success 

 of foreign butters in England. It is not at all a question of 

 quality and inherent goodness, for in reference to this the 

 butters of the British Islands are, to say the least, equal to 



FIG. 25. THE " ALEXANDRA " HAND-POWER SEPARATOR. 



those of any other country, and superior to those of most 

 others. Creameries in the British Islands have, however, 

 already proved their ability to keep abreast of foreigners, 

 to say the least of it, in Associated Buttermaking. But 

 we are bound to admit that our butters have been, and 

 to a considerable extent still are, n ade on no regular and 



