Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 148, 3 June 1893, Page 2

Correspondence.

INQUIRER. nUi '•■ TO THE EDITOR (M» ,f M ftlAJl^ Sir -I have ' deferrea^a&wMg " Inquirer's ". letter of , the, 27th May to lead him to b«liev« that'l nni«*O 1 to do so, but, with your permission, I • will endeavou* to J shW< him^ c^gnybne ' believing in his version that he is wrong. ' I could have done so m my first letter > but I was; aware, *tbas it was, not inform- ■ ation he ! wanted T)tiV that henad-tt&ej ' motives. . I will . take pan-setting versjk v j separating jrfai toi show ltbafe:lFam}s£ra ff 'to back ray Opinion that the latter will ' make 10 per cent more butter thrattatw ' former. I will lodge £5 with yoSiJW'* 1 will do the same, on condition that a quantity of milk' i^mnißd^fi* several 1 days, divided into equal parts, half to , be separated under my rapenriaqni-Mul ' half to be \ set 'in pans in th^trdinary 1 way undeir his— an umpire to 1»:«pi^ pointed to see fair play. If IJult»EadGß h 1 \0 per-oent more bnttec .than he does, he ■ to take ' the stftkes, or Ww ''hersduWlft 1 quotes from the Auckland Weekly j[ contributor> J expepe^qe- wh\)^ say^s he got as much by pan-se,tting^ as by separating except on muggy, very warm^ days, which, would amount to a considerable number during the year;: ; days. NoV^ftj the ordinary time ailowea for cream' to* rise' is thirty *s£ hpnwjiifT' the milk goer sour in twelve at least, on? . \ third of the cream ia lost." I have^wayi ' [ maintained that* at certain timeV'oiftne year there is no very great di#erence.^bat to make up for it in ilie remains, separator butter will always^comma^iid^a higher price in .. the dpeh^market. I think the majority bt y^our readers will giT* me credit for not being such a fool as to state that I thought J!8 was .»ti fair^v^rage^br ordinary cows on grass only,, ami no/be • able to correct where -my figvea>wereu made to show £38 per cow.; InlMtHrJetf 1 years mentioned I made 17 < 1 29i»b^»o#' butter, on whioh^ I alJlowed.T^l peribftn?" 8d per Jb, for the exira lO'peV tenP-f 57 12s Bd.' No reference*. io 1 l^ObwKwifl! made with' these i flgniesi ; /In ; ftoWan average of 22 cows was.^on my <fiußin and. ' milked for that period, r Jsto )of or butter^ bein/» worth a penny per Ib jnora than dairy butter I-^e&r j(our readers to the "Wellington, Melbourne, and SyoSey '•. m,arketa cpntidually ijtioted in yonr paier. ! The 10 per cent 1 hay already rtifer^ed 4O. r 14 conc^usibn I wottld' surest tbufctJ to : iutnre " Ingnh'er, " shoiild sign bia latifcif nauq^af it r !f a pity for %*h ashing light t6 be hidden under a mUk pan. ■ t> • '■■-''■ t : mfr* : '>--^tKK. W.*B?Bbtei«tkb. »ts