CASEIN OR CHEESE?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 10

CASEIN OR CHEESE?

!AR(rXJMENT AT BUNNYTHORPE. Tho marits of cascin making and Teheese-.making were very muclt' bela--bourcd at a-'incetiug of suppliers to tho Bimiiytliorp'e Dairy Company on Monday. . Tiio. report of tlio first year's easeiri-niaking said tlio greater cost of manufacture reduced tlio success anticipa'ted, . The chairman (Mr. J. B. Robertson) Baid this was natural in a new industry.- When they , laid down tile plant they did ivot correctly gauge tlio. cost of production! Tiiei previous WangaHui .'experiments had 'Been oil a small scale, but theirs were the ; most extensive in Now-Zealand. Furthermore,! milk liad not provided tlio '• ox'pefcted return.. .The coming season, • however,. promised much better profit. Tho company could terminate the agreement with the Casein-.Company at tho ■end of any season. ' . \ Mr. King:. At Wangamii the farmers 'dislike casein making. . » The .chairman : At-.Pihnma it is increasing. . • .Mr. Argyle declared casein-making vtho' % greatest backward step tlio com- } patty. had. ever, made.' Another £100 Would have put in cheese-making plant: '• Mr. Ransom: -What 'cheese factories .fj>av better than butter factories? Mr. Argyle: Aiiy amount. Mi\ Itgnsom: During the last eleven; years not one of thorn.. (Disorder.) Tlio chairman:' Would you, Mr. Aripvle, bo prepared, to take away from iHiwinui Factory/,the- separated cheese i.Tt'liey ?. j -v. v. ' Mr, .Argyle: No. ~ Another supplier, expressed the opinion that'casein whey.was 'good for icalves two months, old after• -yeaning • from separated iiiilk. He advocated *xto.nding casein-makins; still further. Mr. Argyle said Danish; farmers stop-Tied-making-cascin when" its .-value fell .-Aelow £'31 "pw ton- Y ' . ' . , jtf. Moon .proposed tliat> meeting of .suppliers be called next 'February .to Mecidb whether to.■make.-'casein/; It -might bo advisable .to' 'nuike casern one part of the -season and chepse the other.. The chairman:. You .will then need to /raise'more money. ■ ~ Mr. Moon: We will do that. ' The motion was carried.