BUTTER FROM WHEY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 794, 18 April 1910, Page 10

BUTTER FROM WHEY.

EXPERIMENTS SATISFACTORY. The' experiments in making butter from the fat remaining in whey after it has passed through the cheese vats is i reported to be proving successful' .at the Kaponga Dairy Factory. The work is being conductcd by Messrs. Stevenson and Pedersen, of the Dairying Division. During the summer months,: whra . n good deal ef milk ia brought to the factories in/ an overripe condition, the buttor-fat remaining in the: whey is no doubt considerable. But even at the present time, when the Tats are-worked under most favourable conditions, the firsv day's whey separated at Kaponga factory yielded 251b. of butter. Produced as a commercial article • under better conditions this would, be worth over £1, and the schema would thus, it is stated; be payable wi this basis. But, with efficient facilities introduced, there would naturally be more pronounced succoss met with. ' At; Kaponga, as at most other cheese factories, the whey is run from the vats down a lengthy concrete channel, and thence into the whey tanks. The introduction -of facilities to provide for the. whey going straight-to the separator, .from, the': vats would : most certainly--promote greater success. •