The Dairy Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1894, Page 2

The Dairy Industry.

THE NEW; .-OPVEBNMENT 811^ = The new f JDairy BUI! pifp ; v tides t for tlfc establishment of JsinipX^ : - ■ stores for dairy produce, and en«bjM provision to be made by Order-in-Council requiring butter or cheese for \ export to be placed in the cool •tore at the port of shipment for the' pur-" '"V pose of being graded, and afterwards ' : " frozen or cooled as the, case may be— ' in the case of butter at least six days, " and cheese three days, prior to ship. • raent, _;■ _ '■ _ _ ■ ■;■ >y^j ;; "- On the despatch of any . batter . or 1^ : "" cheese to the cool store, advice thereof must be immediately posted, ad-' dressed to the Government grader at the store, giving full particulars of itfsf* '*K number of kegs, boxes, or packages. ' The ports of shipment are to be Auck'and, Wellington, Lyttelton and r; ) ,, Port Chalmers, and auoh othen as ; " i may from time to time be proclaimed. The contents of every keg) box, or I ..""'' package containing butter or cheese \ shall be graded while in the cool : ' store, and shall be stamped with the : official stamp or mark. For the pur- *; : pose of testing the quality of any butter or cheese, the grader may open ' and sample any of the packages. . ,; Pure milk— that is, the whole of the milk of cows, including strippings .. —must be supplied to a factory m% f creamery, or to the public, «nless ' otherwise stated. Every person sup- ,^, plying milk to a dairy, factory,, or t creamery- shall, immediately the miller is drawn from the cow have it cooled &. : m or aerated. Milled bujter, which io the interpretation clause is defined jmt"pure butter collected from one or more dairies fit factories for the purpose of T. being mixed or blended and packed, „ nust be stamped with the words " New Zealand milled butter," before h, it leaves the factory, and alt batter and cheese shall be marked with the ; words "New Zealand dairy,?: « r N«w Zealand factory," or "New Zealand •/'■ creamery." The stencil-plate or rubY ber stamp shall be obtained from the Department of Agriculture. c^>i There is a clause as follows relating ; to the rate of payment for milk :^- 1' Every owner of a dairy, factory, or creamery rec«iring milk shall pay foir the same at per gallon of eleven pounds avoirdupois. ; bat nothing. herein contained shall prevent- any- ■#• dairy, factory, or creamery i^owneti^i paying for such milk according to the ':> . productive character thereoi— N.Z: J; Times. ' '*' :^^'-' ;: -