THE CHEESE SEASON.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 8

THE CHEESE SEASON.

if':-; -.;■: LAST YEAR BETTEE. ■ . . i'-..'.- Theipresent season .has been ; one of re-- ? anarkable milk yields and great expansion i'.nn factory outputs, but in some ways it iVjdoesnot come-up to last season from the {-: (cheese-making point of-view. Spealting to. ■:'. ja -Dominion- representative yesterday, '< ilr.' ;; jT. West, manager of the Dalefield Cof (operative Dairy ; Company, said.that while ■: (the milk.-yields . wore bigger the milk v. jdid,.not : contain.; the' same proportion of ; -ieqHds7as-in/some past years.. Last sea-i;-:json>- for;'instance,- the. quantity of"milk: t jxeauired to make . one . pound of cheese j nvbrked out froni. the.Dalefield records at j- j9.801b.: The, proportion:,.this.year would t jbe one .pound of cheese to something over : /101b. of milk. •• The company's last report :jshowed: that-a pound of butter-fat made . : |2;601b. of cheese.- This,figure would also ; falling away, probably < to- about: [ E.541b, The- tests' taken from, the, milk >; )of"- Dalefield's 65 ; suppliers'■" yesterday IVttanged from 3.9 to i.l per-; cent, ss J: 'against' 5.1 per cent, at'-tiic -correspond-. ("■ ing.' time, of last. year,' thus showing: a [.; considerable falling'off iu'the riohnessdf ['-. the However, the increase in quanta tity is bringing the season well out on t'th'e right-side of the ledger, and the-out-}-put is expected to. ran at-close on 500 |- tons, as against thc-419 tons of last seal:'.&>ii. On' Sunday the factory received 3479 i'';Kallom>,of mill;, ,an ,: increase of 1200 gal-jv-Hons over the same .day of i ;-:-. The moisture with which the pastures. iWihave , been plentifully replenished : from ; time to time during the summer has, made, i-for big milk yields with low butter-fat i percentages, just as it has made for ■: quick-growing poor fattening I'-. qualities. .Asked , whether he.ascribed-.tho. !. jack of cheese solids in the milk to.the -' isame cause, Mr. West said he was really' i- iat.-ajoss to know exactly what to put it ! !down to. At first sight the mpistness of >. itho summer might seem a plausible exi : iplanation, but' on. looking!; back over.;pro■j Tious years' '.■ records this was found not r tto hold "good. The season of 1907-8, the ': ,year of droughs ' and bush fires, was ';■ equally unsatisfactory from the cheese >, -ppint of view, and a pound of butter-fat t. in that year, only made about 2.491b. of i ■ cheese, a pretty considerable falling away. r -from what has. ruled in the best years. \'. Xast season was one of the best he hadi; tepwn. ■-. from a elinese-making point, of klview, and it was saldpm that such satis- '■ ••factory results were obtained from-.the. t- earne-quantity of milk. -'. '■■'■ ■ . .