IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 8

IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS.

: PASTEURISING SKIM MILK AT GLEN OEOUA. I ; lor some time a. good and important f \ work has been.proceeding quietly, "at Glen Oroua. ' •s ; ; Early in advocacy .of the pasteurisa- | -'tion.of the by-products of milk, experimeuts:wero instituted at the. Glen Oroua j 'dairy factory by way of-pasteurising skim niilk; lir tiio early stages'of the experi- >•' menting 'much trouble• vfas.v caused by | -fjotK 'gathering in the tank into which the-heated skim milk 'was run'. > ' * The froth difficulty, has sinco been over- ; oome.'.The pipe through which the skim .'milk flows to the tank has been so fixed | - j at; tij© rqouth that the liquid sprays'out. ! 'The effect is that froth does not form, t .. The, second batch of pigsfrom Glen | 'Oroua will bo ready for slaughter short- !. , 'ly.. The pigs have been fed on pasteur- \: lsedskim *milk, and- the "condition in which they are found when slaughtered is i a matter tof interest and- importance to the whole of New Zealand. ' ; The first batch was a triumph for the advocates of pasteurisation: every pig was [ . found,to be sound. If the second lot is ; »as;gdod> the effect will be to further im- ! i press the Rvalue of the.priuciole. - - r . The 'esDeriment has been directed !•- . -throughout by the Department of Agrif. culture',', a .representative of which has h -been-on the spot all the time. It is uii- ; , • derg food that the Department are quite v : .satisfied with the experiment, and it is P, itnTO that*, they look upon the .pasteurisI ing'.of the..by-products of milk as a thing j : which'should be adopted-by every factory • •in the'country. • The "time-when pasteurisation will.be- | cojnegeneral .looks very much nearer now •;. than it aid a while'ago. The exoense and ( - other' difficulties' were looked, upon by ! dairymen as barriers. Various things !. have operated and' brought' about a i change. • f : -'The writer was travelling with' one of tho best known farmers in the 2s T orth Is- ; Sand; recently, and the farmer discoursed j °, n . tho .Question of the' pasteurisation of, |": 6kinl milk as one ofcthe gravest matters p".- of dairying interest.. He dealt, with the i expense and other aspects of heating the j. -by-product, bu? concluded in favour of t - .pasteurising. As the chairman of a dairy [ | factory, he had taken a particularly keen interest in the matter,,and had made in-. » . quiries and'taken notice of the opinions j. 4 of other factory chairmen. Hekwas not i satisfied that the work could he done as f economically as - was. desirable, but nott • ■■withstanding.that he cduld not see right in postponing the' innovation longer. Other's,-he~ said, were of the same opinion.- \ •. 'Therefore there is hope that pasteuris- , jirig. will be introduced,in a number of { . 'dairy factories next year.- ]