Correspondence.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 March 1909, Page 2

Correspondence.

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; OUR BUTTER FACTORY. (to the editor ) ! Sir, —A rumour was circulated that ; otic butter factory was not turning ! out good butter. The management [ ou being interviewed, proved satisfac ! torily that the butter really excels in i flavour, qualify ond taste any butter that has ever come to Kawbia. A rich nutty flavour is noticeable to the most hardened palate, and there is no doubt that all wa now want is that all settlers who have the welfare of themselves and the district at heart at once get cows or heifers and start milking next season. We must all . admit shat no industry will bring in as much ready cash as batter making. Sheep have fallen, wool is at bed rock, so now is the time to get started milking. The more cream sent to the Factory the butter the butter, as to insure success i-is necessary to send , cream daily. So let those who have i not already made up their minds to ' milk cows do so. A milker to milk 180 cows costs £95; water power can J be used wherever it is handy to drive ! the milker ana separator, or i where there is no water power a small i engine which only requires a limited quantity of firewood, and can be used ' out of >n to saw timber. The first cost is no uoubt a drawback, but i to a man determined to make a start and get out of the everlasting drud i gery of farm life, by putting his grass ! t > t ie best profit, and thus being able i to pay off his mortgage, raise the • value of bis land and lay by enough > to make old age independant, without 1 the obsolete slavery of hand milking, ! it is’ a triflle. I have Been the principal milkers wt work and they as ! simple and natural as water running I down hill; any two farm hands ean milk 100 cows and separate the milk and cream.—Yours, etc.,