The Dairy Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 223, 26 January 1894, Page 2

The Dairy Industry.

♦ COLD STORAGE CHAMBER FOR WELLINGTON. VARIOUS SUGGESTIONS. Mr Valentine, chief dairy expert, is . filled with admiration at the fertility of the land which he passed through on his recent visit up the West Coast. He says that the luxuriance of the pastures he saw is quite unparalleled in his experience. He suggested to the farmers whom he met that they should use every possible means to properly cool and aerate their milk before sending it on to the factories. It would be desirable also, he thinks, to have refrigerating machinery fitted up at these places. Mr McKerrow (Railway Commissioner), Mr Valentine (chief dairy expert), and Mr J. D. Ritchie (secretary to the Agricultural Department) had a conference recently with the view to the erection of a cold storage chamber at this port for dairy produce intended for shipment. They also inspected several suggested sites, but no definite conclusion was arrived at. It is intended, we believe, that the cold storage chambers proposed for the several leading ports of the Colony shall be worked in connection with the railways. Mr Valentine leaves on Monday next, accompanied by Mr Ritchie, on a flying trip through the South Island, one of the objects in view being to make arrangements, if possible, for cold storage chambers at Lyttelton andDunedin. Mr John Sawers, Government dairy instructor, will join Messrs Valentine and Ritchie at Christchurch next week. ->- Mr Sawers returned on Wednesday' afternoon from his trip up the West Coast. After parting from Mr Valentine he visited the dairy factories at Ashurst and Stoney Creek, between Ashurst and Falmerston. He met the farmers at Foxton subsequently, and delivered a lecture on co-operative dairying. We understand that it isintended shortly to erect a dairy factory at Foxton. Mr Sawers left last night by the Wakatu for Kaikoura, and next week he will accompany Mr Valentine through Canterbury and Otago. They expect to be away for about a fortnight. — N.Z. Times.