The Secret of the Cool Room.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1913, Page 4

The Secret of the Cool Room.

(New Zealand Dairyman). We remember Mr Duddiek as Dairy Commissioner in New Zealand! We ean never, in tad, forget him, so solid was his capacity, so penetrating his genius, and so thorough his knowledge. Therefore we lose no lime in reproducing an article trom a New York paper in winch a great acliievinent of his is narrated with copious quotations from his own reference to the same. 1 hese make the history of a revelation. The importance of the rigid temperature at the right tune in the making of cheese is great, and the period during which the wrong temperature was enforced on the makers was long. This anomaly, so disastrous to the quality ot the cheese so made, was removed by Mr Roddick after a well directed scries of what he falls "illustrations," preferring that word to the colourless, undemonstrative "experiment," which often conveys a meaning akin to failure to made good. The story is told in Mr Ruddicks sketch with brevity and convincing force. That is the main feature of the paper we have reproduced for instruction of our readers. After the history of' these "illustrations" are set a number of rules for the guidance of the cheesemaker which are well worth close study. We need not repeat them here. they speak for themselves m their own place. Rut to improve the occasion it is necessary to quote the most important oi: them in full. It runs thus (it is the fourth on the list):--"If cheese are exposed to a high temperature for more than twenty-four hours after being taken from the press there is a permanent injury winch no subsequent cool curing or sold storage will remedy. ' Here is the result of careful systematic iment, investigation, and "illustration" over a large area of cheese with continuation for a long period of time. It is not a theory therefore. ft is a law of the make, a law demonstrated with every possible and all desirable. completeness. The cheesemaker who studies the Ruddick story, marks it inwardly, learns it, digests it, and makes it his own, will avoid one strong source of failure.. cyf w am ni wwyiffl

The water in the boilers would be enough to till "825(J ordinarysized barrels. Each of the liner's four smokestacks is large enough to permit of the passage of a vessel of the size of the Comet, one of the first steamships.