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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1913, Page 2

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LEVIN. 1.1, HOME SEPARATION OF CILE AM. Correspondence in the The Chroiiicle during the last few days husIncused attention on tho subject <>l ilomc Separation of Cream." I'Vom tin? directors of the Levin ( o-operative J)airy Company Limited we are in receipt of a communication on this subject, culled i'rom n Canadian newspaper, which we append. Briefly put, (he mind oj the local company',s directors on this subject is an open one, but they fear that an introduction of the system may lead to a delerioiation of the butter, and consequently a loss to the individual former in the price of butter-fa!. Should home separat ion become popular J iere the Levin Co-opera-tive Dairy Company's directors will be quite prepared to suit the of the suppliers. Meanwhile it would be ns well for suppliers to read carefully the attached article from the Trade Bulletin of Montreal: ''Verv serious complaints are being made by facforymcn in the heart of Eastern Townships regarding* farmers sending (heir cream from hand separators to the factories. One of the best fartorymen in the Eastern Townships in a letter to his correspondent in the city says j that three-fourths of the farmers are running hand separators, and that he is receiving the cream from thirty farmers every day, and con- ! sequent]y thirty different flavours, ''some good and some rotten." "We factorymen are being driven lo the last trench trying to compete with one another in this damned hand-separator business. Our standard is growing lower every year. In a few years more we will be right where Vermont' has been for the past ten years, making nothing but Cow Oil. The fanners in the Eastern Townships who have earned the record of turning out from their .factories the finest creamery butter in Canada should value the prestige of their product sufficiently to at once stop in their mad course of ruining it. How it is possible for the facforymnn above referred to, who receives cream from thirty diil'erent separators, to turn out a uniform qualify of butter r The product of gathered cream has been a most signal failure wherever ' tried, and unless the Eastern Townships farmers send their milk ; to the factories as formerly, so 1 that a uniform quality of butter ' be produced, they may mahe up their minds to receive a second, instead of a first-class price."