THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 127, 29 May 1907, Page 7

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

MR D. CTJDDIE INTERVIEWED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day

Mr. D. Cuddie, chief dairy, commissioner, who was present at the Auckland winter show and dairy conference, has a very high opinion of the first winter fixture of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, which he considers was all the more creditable considering the brief period of preparation. One factor, Mr. Cuddie points out, which will not be conducive to the further improvement of butterrnaking In the North is the large number of handseparators which are now in use. This ; be says, cannot tend to uniformity and high quality. The chief weakness of the system is the great irregularity of the cream delivered from some home spparating plants, due principally to delay in forwarding the cream. Of course, in certain parts of the Auckland province settlers are very much scattered, and it is impossible for them to supply the whole of the milk, and home separation is consequently the only practical moans of conducting tbe business. Mr. Cuddie states that some Auckland factories are pasteurising the cream, and with fairly successful results. This is the only way of minimising the defects in the butter trade from badly treated home separated cream, but after all it is only a. means of remedying defects which should not exist. Theie is little or no excuse, Mr. Cuddie contends, for delivering of milk or cream at a factory in a bad condition, and the business will never be put on « proper footing until this is recognised.