DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1925, Page 4

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

VIKAV.S OF AMERICAN INQUIRERS. AVEELINGTOX, January o. Doan Russell and Professor Maeklin. of flic University of Wisconsin, have returned to Wellington from Hilford Sound and Mount Cook, and intend leaving for San Francisco to-morrow. They are particularly interested in dairying and come from one of the most important States in the Union so far as that industry is concerned. While in New Zealand Dean Russell concentrated upon dairy stock feeding. milk and lnttter-fat production and the manufacture of hotter and cliOosC. Professor Maeklin paid particular attention to the administrative side of the industry, especially co-operation. In the course of an interview today. he expressed the opinion that this was really wonderful. It wa,s cooperation in perfection. Now Zealand had a lot to show and a lot to teach the dairy farmers of the United .States in co-operation. He understood that 9o per cent of the farmers of New Zealand were in .thci co-ioperative movement. Very wisely they confined co-operation to one thing. They .specialised in that and made an unqualified success of it. They had shown that there was enough volume in their industry to justify co-operating, and they had brought to hear upon it the highest intelligence in manufacture. The co-operative movement in the New Zealand dairy industry had resulted in a standardised product and that overwhelmingly first grade in quality. That was all right up to the ship's side, hut it was incomplete until the co-operative principle as applied to milk production and i uiuufactnre of hotter and cheese was extended to its marketing'. It was perfect up to the ship’s side, hut it must he carried right through to the consumer. In fact, in marketing its dairy products New Zealand was not so far ahead, although travelling in that direction, as the United States.

I’rofessor Maeklin paid a great compliment to Hr \A illiam Ooodlcllow. of the great New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, for his advanced methods of marketing produce and extending the co-operative principle to cover produce at its destination. New Zealand in its dairy control legislation was certainly making towards completion of tile co-operative process to its logical end. To give good service and to receive a fair return for such service. it now had to complete its merchandising, and in that, he thought, it could learn much from the I'nited Stales, 'flic more the .farmer obtained for his products, the hotter was it for

the country in general. Now Zealand producers should shake hands with the distributors and give them service and satisfaction, and in that they would reap their full and just reward.