HOME SEPARATION.
INVESTIGATIONS IN THE NOKTIT. Although home separation has not the support, of local exports it is favoured by dairymen in a good many districts. 0113 of its devotees is Mr. ■). W. .lone.s, of Kakaratnea, who, according to an exchange, gave the separation method some attention during a recent vis-it tn the northern portion of the Auckland province. Mr. Jones made inquiries as to the working of tho system in connection with the Northern YVairoa factory. The cream is collected by steamer from as fains u'O miles up and down the river from the factory. The boats as they arrive are a sight to wilncss. being a mass of cream cans from stem to stern. The empty cans are taken up on the one journey and replaced by full ones on the return. Cream is collected every other day. The butter which is graded at Auckland went up to as high as !)•> points, the average for the season being 00. It is claimed that the home separation system results in a considerable saving to the producer, the cream being separated in many eases by the same power that drives the 'milking machine. ,\t the Ohaewai ■ Factory in the Bay of Islands -where the same system of separation is in vogue ami where the cream is collected by wagons from a radius, of ."0 miles, Urn cest of collsctidn according to tho iatest balance-sheet works out at Id.' per lb. butter-fat. In the majority of eases the -whole of the morning's work in connection with the milking, separating and washing up, feeding calves, etc., was over by 8 a.m. (a big difference from those districts where the milk has to bo carted by the farmer to the factory) making it possible for any small farmer -who can only milk a few cows to make the most out of his land although it may be, some considerable distance- from a factory.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 25 January 1912, Page 8
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350HOME SEPARATION. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 25 January 1912, Page 8
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