CASEIN MANUFACTURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 8

CASEIN MANUFACTURE.

: -j ': l !'• OPERATIONS AT MIDHIRST. ' '. According to a- statement' made by.,Mt. A.,:Bi-owni .chairman of directors of the Midhirst Co-op. Dairy Co., to a Stratford reporter.' ; ; new'.bui!dirig .is .in course;,of erection' alongside the main factory at Midhirst, and. a plant is; being; installed •for the' initial |operation,in tho inanufac-, ;tnre. of This is ni.erely the prccipitatidri of curd-from the skimmed milk. Tho curd will be pressed, in the usual cheese press,' andvpacked for transport to' tho: -.Casein .Company's works near 1 . 'Wahganui, where; iasetn will '.be '. extracted;; Mr. Brown stated that the, company -was confining tliis. business, at present : to the,main 'factory, and the milk of ouly: .such 1 :,^ere (? willing to accept instead of 1 sKim-milk .the whey, and an extra ljd. per lb. on . their butter-fat ; te;sU-:/i-( - .-'v' ''' "It's surprising to me," -he;:.continued, "how-some, of them have so quickly found the immense .value of calves and'pigs., -I reckon I've' been' in - the business' a, good while now, "and . worked'-the', thing out, but/I've never been able,to make out..if. pigs i-and;;' calves are; anything Mike ,a pnny-farthing! :,extra ■on my,'; butter-fat. :Some:.of them say., they. liave- made .this and' that,"i.i ho - continued, "but when I ask -how: it's done I' find - they .don't debit themselvei' witli-, anything for i the j rearing' of jtho pigs and -wintering of: the calres. They' treat the- total return- from pigs and calves as'all profit. -For my part, I; have hever'been able-to '.winter' calves or buy .or ,rear, pigs for uothiiig. ' ■ "As for.thafeed value .of whey, some say- it's all 'right, and some -say .it's 'no' good. .Wo'shall, see. I was.one' of. those; who' iventi'dowri • the coast to /see; liow the cnseiii whey-fed stock thrived,, and I cau say ,tKe calves looked just .as well as any ;',Tnranak|" skim-milk ;<;alves,, .which niAjr- or .may-not' be saying much. , They . don't' «em: to go in : for pigs, .very, much in '- that -district,' and I have no opportunity 'of seeing' the results ,of the\ use of: this whey for pig feed.' But I believe . that a payment of l-Jd. extra .for ,every' pound or.'"butter-fat .'supplied is--.going to'pa'n out bette'r;for me than the.raising If' a dairy farmer were as rich as Carnegie,: thei'chanCes 'are he would .change his occupation. And' unless he has' the wealth of the Steel King, 'he can - hardly afford to throw money away. Farmers, who- take self-cooled milk- to the factory are squandering- money, 'for- milk cooled in Partin's; Coolers gets .far better tests, nnd' makes i bigger profits. Writo Albert : J Parton, 'Carterton, about his, tinned co3»er Milk Coolers.—Adv.t. •