THE GRADING OF CREAM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 840, 11 June 1910, Page 8

THE GRADING OF CREAM.

NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTER'S ' VIEWS. Mr. Perry, Minister for Agriculture in New South Wales, takes a determined 6tand against the compulsory Government'grading of butter for export, lie is against singling out one special product for such treatment, and declares that grading at this cud will not help to sell the butter at the other. Butter soils on its merits, he says, and by the factory branding. Mr. Perry, however, has an interesting alternative proposal which ho describes as follows:—"If Government interference in connection with this industry is warranted at all, it should be directed to the factory and to the grading of cream. It may be necessary, if we find that butter, prepared for export is carelessly manufactured, to ; pass such legislation as will make it compulsory for factory managers to caroi'ully (jrade their cream and brand their butter in accordance therewith. (,ff course, generally speaking, the eream is graded at present, and it is only in odd factories that it is not. But there are a number of eases which have come under my, notice where, after the cream is graded, the same price is paid for all grades. This should be. stopped. It is a practice that is generally duo to sume of the faulty suppliers being directors or in a big way; butbj the factory paying the same price all round for cream it tends to encourage carelessness on the part of the suppliers, and to perpetuate faulty methods that are |detrimental to all efforts tu improve .the • standard of our butter. I want to interfere as little as possible with the industry '" all these matters, but if any compulsion becomes necessary it should £* applied to cream grading."