CHEESE AND CASEIN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1457, 4 June 1912, Page 8

CHEESE AND CASEIN.

DISCUSSED BY' A DAIBY CO. A VICTORY FOB CHEESE. Butter .mil cheese, or butter and easc'n, was a question wliich was discussed by shareholders and suppliers o£ the AVhenunku'ra Dairy Company last week. Tlie meeting was presided over by Mr. W. Hurley. The chairman said the object of the meeting was to obtain from the shareholders au expression of opinion 011 the question as to whether the company should instai a dual plant so that butter or cheese could be made at will, or accept the proposals of the Wanganui Dairy Company in reference to casein. This proposal was that the skim milk from the butter should be made into curd and disposed of to the Wanganui Dairy Company, who would manufacture casein from it at their works in Wanganui, for which they would pay at the rate of ,£IS 10s. per ton. In Favour of Butter and Cheese. Mw W. D. Powdrell spoke emphatically in favour of the dual plant so that butter and cheese could be made at the discretion of the directors. He instanced the case of the Mangatoki Company, who acknowledged that tlicy had lost ■£!15,n!10 through not bavins been able to manufacture chee>(: instead of butter. An argument used by some was that the addition of- a cheese plant would cost money. He assured his hearers that this cost would be very little. It would be only a "fleabite" which would lje more than made up in one season under ordinary conditions. The plant would probably cost «tC(IO. When this was compared to the amount tliny stcod to gain, it was absurd not to go in for the proposal. To meet the cost, lie would advise altering the articles of association as they had done at Katipokonui, namely, that every supplier should be required to take lip a shore per every 1201b. of butler-fat supplied dur-. 'lid the year. If this were done it .would mean that the new suppliers would have to shoulder practically the whole of the additional burden. Emphasising lii's contention still further, Mr. Powdrell said that surds, something was-wrong when a proprietary charging one penny per lb. for the manufacture of cheese could hike suppliers from .'.them. AVith regard to the casein proposal, he was.not prejudiced against'it, but like everyone else lie iras out after "the almighty dollar," and lierefore to adopt' the casein proposals ivhieh would give them an additional l{d. ivbilc cheese would mean an- additional !kl. would lie folly. An. objection raised :o cheese was that calves did not do soveil on whey as tliey did on skim milk. tVell, most of the calves in this district •ame from whey land, and they could lot say there was much the matter with hem. Ite mentioned two well-known-tock raisers who' would not buy skim nilk fed calves. Concluding, lie alfirmd that any factory which had not two ilants was far behind the times.-There ould be no doubt about the wisdom of dopting the cheese and butter proposal. 'he Claims of Casein. Messrs. Vickerman and Hoist,- of the Cow Zealand Casein Company, Wanga- ( ;'ui, .presented the case for casein. Mr. Hoist, speaking from an extensive xperience of chcese, butter, and casein, [lid that about twelve months ago the asein industry* had suddenly come iiito rominence, especially in Ddnmark. The emand for the commodity had increas[l greatly, so that the output per year had now reached 15,000 tons, the market

price being ,E32 in?, per (on. Tin I lien entered into details of tin- process of liianiifiictiiro from a scientific paint of view, showing that the whey from il was ill no way made injurious fur fenting. .In some respecis, ea-oin whey wa* bolter for feeding purposes than ' "as ordinary skim milk. Ctisein Vouf to build up bone. In (he whole milk it was of course, in the right proportion, but when skim milk wos fed. three or four limes more casnin was fed than a en If could digest. Phe object of humnni.siii!; milk for infants was to hike away the casein, lie then repeated th.- firm had already made to take Ilia skim milk, Ireal some in their factory and pay the company .SIS 10s. 3d. per'ton' for dried casein. 1-iirther. his firm would enter into ;i contract for four years and would refund to Hie company the east of instiillnig the plant for the making of the curd. Mr. UarleyiiKin, secretary of the Knuttokonui Cniii|iany, strongly ydvncnted the butter-cheese proposal, ifis objection to the casein proposition was that it irrevocably tied them up for n certain time. If they were at liberty to fell their output of casein in a similar manner to what they did cheese, he would not be against it, all things of cour.-e being equal. In any case, the installing of a dual nlant would not preclude the putting in of a casein plant, if in the future such action was deemed advisable. Instancing the profit of cheese making, he stated that for the past three years the Kaupokonui Company had paid out an average of Is. Id. per lb. butter fat.