GO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 107, 15 May 1901, Page 3

GO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING.

To the Editor

Sin, —Allow me a few words in reply to “ Justice,” as, no doubt, he is a wellmeaning individual, although ho is a little bit mixed up in his ideas, and also shows a lamentable amount of ignorance regarding the industry ho is trying to enlighten his neighbors upon. In the first place, lie makes a bold launch into the business, and hopes the milk-suppliers will adopt the co-operative principle, and not allow the few to reap the big harvest. He then seems to get a bit mixed up between housing cattle in Taranaki, the Government experts, and the tests of milk, 'as he next suggests that some of the capitalists of Taranaki should be interviewed with a view to starting factories iu various localities. What they are to start on, he forgot to say; but I presume it is shipbuilding, as ho next say's that Messrs Turnbuil and Co. are the proper persons to take the matter in hand. Perhaps next time “Justice” enlightens us on Cooperative Dairying, he will make it a little plainer, as at the present it is rather mixed, as he objects to the few at present reaping the big harvest ; he then goes on to enlighten the people on shipbuilding out of the profits of butter-fat. There is no doubt some of the young people in Poverty Bay' will take the matter up right heartily. The next endeavour is another variety. He seems to have awakened to the fact that he was on co-operative dairying, and he is going to enlighten the ignorant regarding dairying in the Waikato. He states that there are over eighty factories all doing well (all co-operative, I presume). I have no doubt “ Justice ” got his information from a reliable source, and it must be the very- latest, as the Department of Agriculture on November Ist, 1900, only knows of twenty-seven factories in the whole of Auckland, and twenty-four ot them are proprietary factories. There are fifty skimming stations in conjunction with the proprietary factories, which make twenty-four factories and fifty skimming stations owned by proprietors, and three solitary factories on the co-operative principle. Perhaps “ Justice ” will tell us next time he gives us a lessou which of the factories has paid so well. He states they are all paying well. Perhaps it is the proprietor they arc paying ; or perhaps he is one of the late proprietors, as he seems to think he knows all about the matter, even the question of how much the Company should pay to a competent person (like “ Justice,” I persume), only JMOO a year, and it would pay the milk vendors handsomely, so “ Justice ” considers. He states it would help to reduce the rent bill, but he has got a bit mixed again. He should have said it would help him to reduce his rent bill ; but I have no doubt “ Justice ” will make all these little simple things quite plain after he has had a little experience at the milk vendors’ expense, and as his next is to be on co-operation, let us hope he will not get to housing cattle and shipbuilding companies, and etc.—l am, etc., Vacuous,