MONEY GOING A-BEGGING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 10

MONEY GOING A-BEGGING.

•, ■ STRIKING ADDRESS. ■ IBy -Teleirraoi-Press : Aseqciation.) - ..:.,Pal.m.erst'on, ■■November".3o,-■-'■Speaking at, the -opening ■ of ' -'ono of Mossrs.',"Joscpli : Nathan', and Co.'s new cheese faetorios,. Mr:,, Fred.i J. Nathan: 'g'ave'an.'ihtor'esting.adilress upon.'the.pfeseiit 'arid'fiitui-e.'of the dairy industry.':, . •■. Ho mentiondd tho'.dual: pur'p'psc'.bf'the cow', and referred'to,'by-products, and the firtn's own-successful '.dried-milk venture, ■Which' is'to ;be, oxteu'ded.' '.Those 'ihtor--este'd. had. so far o:lly .'scratched' tho siirfaee. ; ,and had never yjet -got below ; tho''.first skin. Tho-.monufac-tiiro'. of .butter - and cheese'wiis not"'lb-rig going to remain tlioir chief -consideration. out; in the .near futurc,"'waste. products from butter and'eheese would- be'receivlitg earnest .cbiisi'dbratipn.', •••-.■ There were enormous potentialities, -not yet recognised by dairy farmers)- in these .waste products. Articles ' which were being used,, not only in this country but • : iu- other• parts of the .world to an enor.-ljtous-extent, were ,(in the Doniini'on) being absolutely neglected. Ho referred to the manufacture of casein, milk sugar, and concentrated milks. There was, at tho present- time, to his knowledge, an order waiting acceptance of 2000 tons ofcasein, and; wheu-one-.remembered that' this-.could bo" w-hplly./manufactnretLfrpm -'skim-milk;.'and tltat.its value was any.thing' between: J!so' and ',£l2O per 'ton Ktiq-;,c6rding-to tho finish 'oftho' article), tli'ey '•would agfeb .with- lnnf" that there, was 'a great future for this side of the industry. Sugar of milk had,' in recent times, risen to double its value,, and tho demand for it was an increasingly-growing one. Our supplies now were .dependent lipon .the conditions ruling iii:-Europc. .': The whole of this might bo producedin' this country from the whey, but'-'the' themselves were, to a very large extent^'to-lilame for keeping these new; industries' back, 1 in so much as they put, an'inflated price on. the value of their, skim-milk and whey; The scheme of--creation never intended (hat n pig, to get 80 -'per cent, of'solids, should have toswallow 92 per cent, of liquid, but the' dairy farmers"argued that that-was, at : any rate the cheapest method of feeding the.pig, .and; when estimating liis, profit,; from Oils skim-milk: or ;W:hcy, as. tho case might be, he never for ope moment..poii--sidercd.what it; would cost him to ..purchase solids for tho growing of bacon,or took into consideration the labour that. he. expended and tho capital iiivlved. Until the farmer was prepared to t-tke his proportionate sharo of the risk in' bringing forth new business with : the: capitalist or merchant, as tho case might he, -new businesses, such as he had mentioned, must bo retarded. ■ . .- ■It was tho bounden, duty of the dairy farmer,to give tnore.i attention to-tech-nical and agricultural education. It was their duty, even at some little privation to r themselves, even at tho espense v . nf ecoriomi'srhg in some other. direction,"' to encourage' to their -utmost the. younger generation to'at'tend the.technical sphbols so frcclv. placed at,-'their disposal by the Government. Unless they were '■ 'prepared ' to make sonte little sacrifice towards this end, and to encourage their,children to atteiid' these' schools, .-'and 'to receive 1 ' the education in thcir-owu, particular busi-ness.-there was ivjjity.little hope..for..fi'veh a'u" increase in the. tuttire, for'this '.biisi-nes3-.-:as" there should be." ' ' -'