The fall .in the price of butter in I London, as announced in oar telegrams the other day, will naturally cause the farmers some uneasiness. The ship ment that the quotations refer to is evidently that sent by the lonic, which took a good quantity Home in her. Till, however, we get a return of the sales it is impossible to say what price the Taranaki butter has realised, and it may be that the lower prices have reference to consignments from other j places. There is one cause, however, of the fall in price that we are per feotly aware of— and that is, it being spring time in England, when the dairy produce market is glutted, the quotations as a rule for all qualities are lower than at any time in the year. Taranaki is designed to become a large dairying district, and markets must be found for its produce. That .is not to be accomplished in a day, but whilst there are so many enterprising gentlemen actively engaged in search ing fox- markets in all parts of the world for. our butter, the farmers need have no fear for future results. All the dairymen have to do is to give their minds to the producing of a good article,' and they will obtain for it a •fair markat price. We referred the other day to the Premier writing to the Agent- General to procure for 'New Zealand "a duly qualified expert who could instruct the manu facturers in the methods of prepara tion of their produoe to suit the English markets, whose salary was not to exceed £200 a year." As we Btud then we scarcely think that a qualified expert will be obtained for such a comparatively paltry sum ; and anyone aooepting the position we should say was not worth the money. An expert in the butter and cheese trade at Home could command a salary of from four to five times the amount the Agent-General is limited to offer, and good men are difficult to get even at that price. Some £ye years or so ago the Govern ment employed a Mr. Bowron, who travelled the colony lecturing on the manufacture of butter and cheese. He was rather old in many of his ideas ; but to some who were novices at dairy ing he conveyed much nsefal inform ation. 