130 BRITISH DAIRYING. 



For exhibition purposes butter becomes modellers' wax, and 

 lends itself readily to purposes of temporary ornamentation. 

 Wonderfully beautiful groups of flowers, in the form of grand 

 bouquets, whose modelling and arrangement were exquisitely 

 chaste and delightful, have been greatly admired at the Lon- 

 don Dairy Shows. 



These uses for butter are of course purely adventitious, but 

 at the same time there is no valid reason whatever why butter 

 should not be put into gala form at times, and used for orna- 

 mental purposes. The Shows alluded to are the harvest fes- 

 tivals of the great dairy industry of these islands, and a display 

 of butter, done up in forms of beauty, is singularly appropriate 

 as well as attractive. 



British and Foreign Dairy Produce. 



In another chapter I have alluded to the importance of unifor- 

 mity in the quality and character of dairy products. Herein 

 we find the chief reason why Continental butter and American 

 cheese have obtained so much favour in the eyes of provision 

 merchants in the great centres of population in this country, 

 particularly in London, which is the greatest of all. The 

 French " blend " their butters in large quantities and so attain 

 uniformity; the Danes secure it by means of their co-operative 

 dairies, or creameries ; the Americans attain it in their cheese, 

 because it is made on a large scale in thousands of cheese 

 factories. 



That foreign cheese and butter surpass our own in quality I 

 am not prepared to admit ; on the contrary, I believe there is 

 no cheese made in America equal to the best produced in Eng- 

 land or Scotland, simply because the climate and herbage of the 

 great Continent of the West do not admit of it, and I am equally 

 convinced that nowhere in France or Denmark or any other 

 country is there butter to be found quite equal in all respects 

 to the finest samples we have in the British Islands. One of 

 our great London provision merchants has encouraged in the 



