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Margarine and Butter Factories. 



[OCT., 



an exhibitor making a pale butter suitable for a North of 

 England market is not handicapped by the butter being sub- 

 mitted to a judge from a district where a deeper colour is in 

 request. 



The following is the scale of points adopted as a basis in 

 judging: — Flavour, 60; texture, 25; colour, 5; packing and 

 finish, 10 ; total, 100 points. The full marks represent what 

 the judges consider the best butter, from any source whatever, 

 arriving in the markets of Great Britain. No exhibit is entitled 

 to full marks unless, in the opinion of each of the judges, it 

 equals this butter in every respect. In the scoring, deductions 

 are made for a defect under any heading in proportion as the 

 butter suffers in monetary value from the defect. Any reduc- 

 tion of the commercial value of a butter is thus expressed as 

 nearly as possible in the marks. 



In addition to the marks awarded, notes are frequently added 

 explaining, where possible, why a butter is " scored down " under 

 any particular head, e.g., flavour, texture, &c. 



Since 1903 the Department have invited a number of 

 creamery managers to attend at various competitions, their 

 expenses being paid by the Department. They were by this 

 means afforded an opportunity of discussing with the judges, 

 on the day of the competition, the defects and improvements in 

 the exhibits generall}^ Next day they were permitted to 

 examine personally their own exhibits, see their scores, and 

 compare them with the other samples, under the direction of one 

 of the Department's Inspectors, by whom the defects noticed in 

 the exhibits and the steps to be taken to bring about an 

 improvement were explained in detail. 



The Board -of Agriculture and Fisheries recently had occasion 

 to ask the local authorities in Great Britain for a return of all 

 the minufactcries of margarine, that is. 

 Number of Mar- places in which margarine is actually 

 and Butter^^^ made, and opportunity was taken at the 

 Factories in same time to ask them to supply a list of 

 Great Britain. butter factories in which butter is blended, 

 re-worked, or treated by any process, as 

 distinguished from creameries or dairies where butter is churned 



