MILK AND WATER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 8

MILK AND WATER.

P?HE FUTILITY Ol 1 ADULTERATION. ■ "What tost is" the river that runs through yonr farm?" "',_'' This seems thV popular query at a certain Taralnkl dairy 1 factory just ,now («ays the "News"). ~Dairy ..factories,., as is.^well.known ' to all connected with that industry, pay thoir mrppljers according to tho amount of buttor fat contained in the_milk Tarmers as a rule are never satisfied with tho lest they receive, and always imagine tho factory manager is trying to beat tbem Occasionally, howovei, a mana BGr.Srds the farmer trying to heat him by breaking down his milk with the addition of aqua pura not overture) Tho i n maniger ,of the factory in question, noticing — that, ono of Uis largest suppliers was testing very low, nataely, 2 7, decided to watch very carefully, anil took the precaution of testing dally for butter-fat, and also for wator He fo\iiid ]n thriU snccessivo tests that three tenths of the milk' was added water. This was duly'published on the bulletin board of tho creamery from which tho milk was received, and ad a xesult the quantity decreased whilst the quality went up It is hard to seo what the oDject of this could be, i, unless it ■was'that tho supplier thought he would obtain an quantity of skim milk in,return for tho- water, or maybe he thought in these days of advanced science the manager might be able to turn some of it info butterfati-, ' A i • In o relation to-this matter, one may recall. *'hat was said by tho Kaupokonui Dairy Factory to tho annual meeting of his suppliers, whoso integrity no doubt ranks as high as that of any group of suppliers in New Zealand lie saw —Last season ■" there was qtuto a number of complaints about the test, and asked )f it was reasonable to assume that a man's v tcst would go up because of having mado complaints <to the-manager f A shareholder romarked that when a supplier's test went from 4 2 to 3fi and then back , to ? 9 in one v month it was only right that some ( explanation, should be giien , s ln a case of that sort, tho manager said, ho made sure that lus. test 1 was accurate They knew as well as ho did J that water was added to the-milk labt'year. > Continuing, Mr Mac donald rem drkott'that it was bad •business', and 1 , he would ask them to discontinue it Ho did not want ,watßr in the milk The Water lowered the test,-and it'did not add to tho keeping T|he~brati<!h factory managers had all been instructed, in the, (Use, of 'the lactometer, , and samples'of each sup'plior's'milk would bo tested foV water. -It was a nefarious practice, end, a.hould be put a stop to Ho would re- , commend the directors to prosecute any sup- / pher wrho brought milk (containing water to the-faerie's ,