Notes for Farmers.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 112, 8 November 1897, Page 4

Notes for Farmers.

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The South Australian Government has decided to make advances to assist in establishing and carrying on cooperative dairy factories. Tbe manager of the Daonevirke factory (Mr H. Campbell), who took first prize for butter and 3econd for cheese ' at tbe Hawke's Bay show, writes to tbe Dairyman: — "We started pasteurising last season. By pasteurising tbe whole milk, the skim milk from tbe Burmister and Wain's machine, separating 380 gallons per hour, tests only '05 butter fat | left in it, by tbe B. and W. test bottle. 1 The farmers find pasteurised skim- milk does not scour the calves and they now prefer it to the unpasteurised. I intend to experiment on pasteurised milk for cbeeae-makiag this summer. I have always believed in pasteurising, but am j now more in favour of it than ever: it i gives the manager more control of tbe I quality of tbe article to be manufactured | The New Zealand Dairyman (Mr 5. j Sawera, editor) declares the the slaughter of every infected beast i 8 the only means of stamping out tuberculosis and adds: "Compensation for this, however, must be extended by tbe State, and in this connection we are glad to know that the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr J. D. Ritchiei is at one with us. The Minister, we believe, will introduce a Bill during the present ses sion of Parliament, having tor its object compensation to dairy farmers — we believe to one half the value— for stock destroyed " If taberculosig is prevalent to anything like tbe extent which is alleged, a million will go a very short way in paying compensation !