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Show Asiatic Butter Trade. At a convention of dairymen In Wisconsin Major Alvord of tho Dairy Division Department of Agriculture was asked concerning the sale of American butter In Asia. He replied '.hat an agent was there, but that Ihcre was no probability of doing anything, any-thing, as tho price the foreigners tvero willing to pay for butter was below what Americans would pay for It. He was then asked what use " there was of keeping an agent there, nnd replied that it was casting bread ,t on the waters. Wo fall to see the ad- IL vantage of trying to build up a for eign trade under such conditions. Of course It makes a position for some man to fill at a good salary, but that is all. In a recent report the agent in Question says that the American butter ho finds In Eastern Asia Is as good as tho Danish article, with the exception that tho American butter does not stand up as well as does tho Danish butter. Some declare that this dlffcrcnco is duo to the Danes feeding feed-ing largo amounts of bran and the i ' Americans feeding largo amounts of ' corn and cornmcal. Duttor to sell In n hot climato must have a good body , - and bo able to stand up. |