WOODVILLE CHEESE COMPANY

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1427, 30 April 1912, Page 8

WOODVILLE CHEESE COMPANY

A PROGRESSIVE CONCERN. The Woodville Cheese Company, which manufactures all the year round, expects a turnover of 230 tons to July 31, 1912. Farmers have received advance payments of Is. per pound of butter-fat, and the .substantial bonus at the end of the season is likely to raise the price, to 13kl. This factory has made great progress since its inception three years ago. It started with a milk supply from 300 cows, which number has now increased to 1000. Tho increase is almost entirely due to tho spread of dairying amongst farm areas, formerly devoted to sheen and cattlo grazing. The separation of the whey during the season has proved to be a sound commercial success. On a 200-ton cheese output, there ha-s been manufactured from the whey 4-ton of butter, which approximately represents .£250 in cash. Although two-ton of butter is o, fair estimate of the return from whey, which is the overplus of 100-ton of cheese, the figures are likelv to be slightly affected by climatic conditions. Tho quality of the butter has been uniformly good. A matter of importance to dairy-farmers in connection with the separation of the whey was mentioned bv Mr. E. Williams, manager of the factory, to a Dominion representative. It was to'the effect that by feeding their pigs artificially, the animals were ready for the market much quicker than when thev were fed entirely on tho whey. In addition, they were of better quality, with sounder constitutions, and from a business point of view the gain in every way was to the benefit of the farmer. It has been contended that there was no distinct gain to the farmer; in fact, that he. lost on his by-product through both cheese' manufacture and whey separation, but for years it. has boeu admitted that pigs were improperly fed, ana thus brought about the, disease which a. few years ago was so prevalent that the mortality caused by its depredations was not suffered to bo made public. Happily, this state of af fairs is not now in evidence, and apparently conditions are further improving.