Dairying Matters.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 14 March 1895, Page 2

Dairying Matters.

(From Our Birmingham Correspondent.) We have now in this island a Canadian dairy expert, Mr McEwen. Some time ago the present Government sent to Professor Robertson, the head of the Government Dairy Department, Canada, i asking him to send out a first-class man to report on the dairy industry of New Zealand, . with a vitw to improving mat ' | ters here,' and Mr McEwen was sent. I believe Mr McEwen lay special stress on the fact, no matter what modern facilities we have for the manufacture , of butter, the best article cannot be made unless the milk is delivered at the . factory in proper condition. With his. usual foresight in furthering the interests ; of dairying in this district,- Mr- Templet : has asked Mr McEwen to "deliver * , lecture on the care of the milk '&0m the cow to the factory. This, Mr McEwen has consented to do at an early date and the lecture will be delivered at Cheltenham. It is to be^hoped all those interested in dairy, matter? will attend, as too many good men have been neglected in this district. In the ofiice of the Cheltenham Factory hangs a small circular, issued by Wed* ; dell and Co. of London, to which Mr Templar drew my attention. It shows the imports of butter into London for 1894, and a few extracts may enlighten some of your readers ou the industry and its magnitude. Denmark sends 48,997 tons, France 21,212 tons, and New Zealand 2727 tons. In prices, France beats the world for that year, ! 128s to 158s per cwt. New Zealand, : i from 94s to 122s per cwt. It will be l noticed that last year New Zealand was - i 6s per cwt. lower than the lowest price ) of the French butter. This year lam , delighted to say that our Cheltenham i butter has topped the London market i for price. No wonder the Danes are trying to crush us out of the field* It now behoves all those interested in dairy matters to educate themselves on the ■ subject, for it is on the settler that the manufacturer of butter must rely to get ■ the milk in the best possible condition into his hands. On Saturday last my business took me " far away from the busy haunts of man." The good man was just bringing in the cows, and I noticed a good looking old one. " Yes," says the goodwife by my side, " many a week she has given 16lbs of butter." There cows and cows.