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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 175, 3 November 1941, Page 5

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MILK CAN FARMERS HAVE TO WATCH CLOCKS "Early to bed and early to might well be the motto of on the Eastern Rangitaiki who are now supplying milk daily to the new cheese factory Pupuaruhe. It seems that cheese factory staffs' like to see the milk at their factories bright and early, because they have a hard day's work ahead of them to turn it into curds and whey* and finally cheese. Oti the other hand butter factory staffs rather like their cream to be on the old side, and having got it to their factory they let it stay there all night to cool its heels, before being churned Into butter. Early Rising So if something like 30 tons of milk has to be at the cheese factory ; by 9 a.m. it stands to reasom that pnmebody has to be up before dawn. That somebody is the man (or woman) who milks. No there brightening up the Rangitaiki Plains at 4 The these ilays, but compared cheese suppliers he is a head. Hence the reason country people marching the darkness and damp cowsheds. At about 6 a.m., or not later, the Dairy Company's median-* ised column sets out from, the f tory with loads of empty cans. By 7 a.m. full, cans are being loaded on board and the vehicles are iu full retreat towards Puipuaruhe. The farmer who has seen his full cans whisked away looks at his clock, sees it is 7 o'clock, and marvels that a mere man like himself can do so much wo r V'-. -tc-fGTC -Vfro- iO-liour week workers have got out of bed. ■ Ruled by the Clock fl In the afternoon the process is peak'l—about 2 p.m. the eyes his clock, and makes a line for his cowshed. At 5 the Dairy Company's lorries scouring the Plains in quest of cans, and by 6 p.m. are bound with springs well down by cans that each weigh 3c\^^ The farmer, having now been on the go for 14 hours is inclined to have his evening meal and retire to his bed, knowing that in another 10 hours it will be 4 a.m., and time to jump into- his gum boots. All this seems to shtvw—that our " farming population is degenerating ' into a nation of clock-watchers. Smame on it! The land of lots of time no longer exists. The Dairy Company's mechanised forces have. " invaded the peaceful Plains. TheJ 1 farmer has to watch the clock od the big green bus will past ' fore his milk cans are full. Ih T a case a miss would be as good as mile.