DAIRYING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4530, 21 February 1923, Page 4

DAIRYING.

THE NGATEA FACTORY. telling figures. Some idea of the standard of product. turned out from the Ngatea factory can be obtained by a perusal of the figures’ given below. They afford a splendid example of what the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co.’s factories arc doing in the direction of improving the dairying industry of New Zealandsuperfine Ist 2nd

An average of superfine, 91.2 pel cent.; Ist, 8.7 per cent; 2nd, 1 per cent, for the season. The fact that only one box m every 1000 was graded second grade volumes for the process of manufacture adopted in the big standardised factories. Particularly good work was done bj the Ngatea factory ip the month oi January, as o,f 7105 boxes of butter •sent forward to the grading store, every' one was classified .as superfine, with an average grade of 93.74'. Tie average grade, of the Paeroa factory for the same month, was 92.47. Of tie total sent forward for export 4a41 were graded superfine, 518 f|rst grade, and 113 second grade. These satisfactory figures indicate ' the great success attending the company’s grading system, in w'hffih ■ e suppliers as a .whole are cordially cooperating. The great advantage of the system by which each can oi cream as it reaches the factory <s graded lies in the fact that by thus standardising the raw material the factory process of manufacture can also be standardised, with the certainty of definite results. In every one of the 13 big butter factories operated by the company the process of manufacture is identical, and the j ingredients and. materials used are the same. This uniform and consistent care results in the production or standardised butter in big lots, and this makes' an appeal to big buyers, who like to handle big lines of guaranteed even quality. Cases have occurred Where important sales have been effected simply because of the company’s ability to guarantee delivery of big lines of standardised quality.

grade grade lb lb lb points August _ 1753 26 89.67 September 3832 1537' 37 91.58 92.46 October _ '5755 904 November 8046 205 93-58 December January - 7819 _ 7015 205 93.12 93.74 Total 34,310 3275 37 92.40