The Dairy Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 8 January 1894, Page 3

The Dairy Industry.

— ♦ Mr N. McKeever, representative of Messrs Coey and Co. (Limited), produce and dairy brokers, of 45, Tooley stroefc, London, S.E., who have branches in Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow, is at present on a visit to this colony for the purpose of seeing how the dairy industry is worked here, and he intends to follow up his course of investigation by making practical suggestions to his firm, and also to prod seers in the colony for the better conduct of the trade in dairy produce between this country and the Home market. So far, he is well satisfied with what he has seen of the country. The principal thing he suggests is that refrigerators should be started in all the butter factories, with freezing works at the various ports, with the view of keeping the butter at a temperature, if possible, of, say, from 25 to 35 degrees, which temperature the firm have practically arrived at as the safest for the conveyance of butter to the London market. They had not only proved the benefit of this in shipments of goods from the colony to Home, but they hud also practically tested it by having some butter, made on the same lines as colonial butter, shipped to Melbourne partly in a frozen chamber and partly in a cool chamber. This butter, on ' arrival, was inspected by several experts in Melbourne, and it was acknowledged by all that the frozen butter was worth from 3d to 4d per lb more than the other. After leaving Dunedin, it is Mr McKeever's intention to visit the principal dairying districts in the North, with the same object as that with which he came to Otago. — Dunedin Star.