THE RURAL WORLD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 599, 3 September 1913, Page 3

THE RURAL WORLD.

HOME SEPARATION v. SKIMMING STATIONS. A very interesting little lesson in dairying is supplied in tne annual report of the New Zealand Farmers Dairy Union. The lesson is that there is nothing so expensive in connection with a butter factory as a creamery. We would take the opportunity or pointing out now that Mr James Lire Murray, one time chairman of the Eltham Dairy Company, pointed out msnv years ago to his shareholders that it cost them £2ouo a year to run their creameries, without taking into consideration the loss oi time, wear and tear of the hauling piants incidental to carting this enormous amount ot milk so many miles seven days a week there and back. The lesson taught by the Dairy Union is this —that they can pay .4-'sd more for butter fat when the farmer does the skimming tnan when the company mmra does it, This year they have difrerentiated to this extent in making their finai payments. The actual payments to those supplying cream This reminds us, too, that we pointed out a few years ago thai, although New Zeaiand always gets a halfpenny per pound more lor its butter than Australia, the Australian supplier gets more for his butter rat —or, in other words, the. extra is per swt. got by the New Zealand supplier for his butter is or no benefit to him. On the other hand it is a loss. The question surely arises now—'Are we not paying too dearly for our whistle, the whistle aforesaid being the skimming station i'or which we have been not a little proud in the past.—N.Z. Dairyman.