BETTER BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 594, 24 August 1909, Page 8

BETTER BUTTER.

THE POINTS OF PASTEURISING. L An era of sterilisation in tho dairy industry seems to be beginning, and tho pasteuriser is going to be somebody this stason. "Whether pasteurised butter .tastes more nutty or sells taster than butter that ls'perfumed with the micrococci of the pastures may long remain a subject of doubt but it is not open to question that the factory which pasteurises stands abovo its rivals. The movement seems to become imbued with tho virulence necessary to look those "rascally fellows"— tho buyers—straight in the face, and it enables tho factor)' to stand up and say. "Our butter may bo full of germs, if you like; but thoy. are. all dead." ■ Tncntv factories last season pasteurised. They oxist mostly <in Auckland province, whore the homo separator flourishes. They are: Kaitaia. Hikurangi, v Mungatapere, •Whangarei, Bay of Islands, Hclensville, .Maungaturoto, Northern Wairoa. Te Puke, .Tauranga, Thames Valley, Wayby, Waipu, Hokianga, Opotiki. aid Port Albert (all in ■Auckland province): and Mangatoki, Mells, and'Whenuakura (Taranaki); and Defiance and Levin, among the Wellington factories. The movement has now been taken up by Taieri and Peninsula (the second largest butter company in New Zealand), Lcpperton (Taranaki)i and Cambridge (Auckland), where pasteurisers arc already being installed. Companies that are contemplating a similar step are those of Komni (Ballance Company) and Makuri.' , , The wave of fashion is now extending to tho skimmed milk and whey on 1 which the calvos or pigs are fed. Although it' might at first appear that tho pasteurising of these secondary products would not bo developed till considerably lator, the actual facts seem to promise its much earlier accomplishment. This is owing to tho fact that tho dairy farmer has become very, much alive to I tho fact that it is from the skimmed milk and whey that his pigs and joung' calves ! aro nrst_ infected with tuberculosis, and 1 sterilisation of these foods is tho only pre-1 ventive. '

.It is believed. that'in a few years the habit of pasteurising /every product of the dairy factory, will have .become' so: general that iwe .shall be'able: to look the .Danes'in the., face on an equal; level; ; All Danish but'■tor is made;, from pasteurised cream, and that is fhe only item'of superiority that now separates their product from, that of New Zealand. '■;.: .--•,•• ■.--'.''.'.•;•■ ••'.';;■■•'."■.■'.• ,V-.

: ; ■■'; With pasteurising,- cow-testing/, and ■''■'•' Mr< Cuddie's prompt assistance for 'faulty 'suppliers, there are wonderful advances in storo for;the.New.;Zealand.butter industry,, •■.'■ ','