Dairy Education Wanted in the Colonies.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 101, 26 October 1897, Page 4

Dairy Education Wanted in the Colonies.

At the annual meeting of the Dairymens' Association of Victoria held last month, Mr H. W. Potts, F.C.S., instructor of scientific dairymen under the Victorian Government, read a paper on dairy education. He suggested the establishment of an annual dairy show nnder the direct control of the Asaociatfon. Sncb shows had been a prominent educational and economic factor in the development of the dairy industry in the older countries of the world. Constant intercourse with foreign competitors of late years has demonstrated many weak points in our method of production and manufacture, which were chiefly dne to want of technical and scientific education. All associated with the dairying induatry ought to be made conversant with the principles underlying the production of uniform high class products, and with suitable standards of educational methods a vast improvement could be generally acquired. To capture the English winter markets was the chief aim of the colonial dairymen, and to achieve success they must imitate methods taught and prac ticed by foreign competitors. Dairy schools and well devised and regulated competition were leading factors in attaining to this end. Not only did the farming population need assistance in that directfon but also the factory manager*. As an instance of how the want of systematic education affected them he might quote the case of the publication of factory returns. One factory paid on a 3*6 per cent butter fat standard per galion, another 3*B per cent, and another 4-5 per cent. Again, one set of factories adopted a gallon weighing lO^lb, whilst mother group paid on a gallon weighing 101b. Thus the daily publication of the factory returns was confusing, and rend ered useful comparisons futile. Mr Potts evidently approved of the Danish system, for he advocated that dairy schools should be established, and travelling facilities extended to dairy managers. Mr Potts pointed out at the same meeting that oeastings were being illicitly introduced at the source of supply. Milk containing boastings produced a bad grade of butter, and might jeopardise a factory's name for a season or more. The practice should be put down with a firm hand. 11 1 feel it my doty to give yon a truthful statement of what Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy did," writes J. S. Collins, of Moore, S.C , " I had a child about two years old, that had the diarrhoea for two months. I tried all the best known remedies, but none gave the least relief. When this remedy came to hand, I gave it as* directed, and in two days the child was completely cured." Sold by Farmers' Co-op. Association, Feilding.