The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1895. ON FACTORIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 238, 8 April 1895, Page 2

The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1895. ON FACTORIES.

The most profitable adjunct to the cheese factory in WoodvilL 1 , we arc lolil, consists of a mob of pi^-s numbering about two hundred, regularly led iron' the liquid which is Ick alter the curd Las Ijccn taken irum the miik. > hey thrive wonderfully on tins diet which is supplemented when necessary with maize or field peas, aiu! Jii'o a sure source of considerable revenue all the year round. Cheese tivd butter luctory managers in this district should follow tins good example. Jt has been suggested that " weanevs " might be /eared at butter factories with advantage to the owners of dairy cows, and thus save the trouble and time necessaiy to carry the skim milk home after it has hecti dealt with in the scperatcr. Bur, as this would en tail the lease or purchase of mure land by tue companies which attempted the experiment, tho plan, is cpen to objection in that respect. One of the largest dealer* iv stuck in this district said the other day, " These factory directors are making a mistake talking 1 about wanting more capital from their share-holders. What they should agitate U.v is move milk, and still more milk. Milk is the sort of capital that makes the money. Encourage the dairy farmers to get or breed only the best grade cows with their money, then both, the dairy factory and farmer will prosper." Let them be ti'vly co-operative in every sense of the ti'Vui. The farmer should not run the factory nor the factory run the lancer, but both should run t - gether. There is sound common, sense in this.