ADVICE TO DAIRYMEN

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 August 1914, Page 5

ADVICE TO DAIRYMEN

MR DEMPSTER'S ADDRESS

[Continued from last weak]

CHEESE AND BUTTER

Nowadays, it was a case of cheese and butter ; cot cheese versus butter. Factories should he such that they could change from oue product to the other as the market deminded. If it were thought tint a dual plant wouH be too expensive, he could merely instance the fact that, in Taranaki, 23 butter fac'ories combined and bought their own freezing works and coastal steamers. Yet, to-day it had paid thorn to leave the freezing works worlh many thousands, practical]}' idle, and go in for cheese. It was a question of maik6ts. THE POWER 01' CO-OPS RATION In addition to the above, Mr Dempster declared that the Taranaki Factories now controlled thnir bacon factories, pig markets (in which they gained about M per lb plus a bonus), fertiliser supply, merchandise, box factories, and even their own saw dills and bush. All that had been beught and financed back to the farm, and it showed what could be done. DUAL PLANT ADVoCVTED Supposing that the settlors of Ruawai went in for a cheese factory and als) had a butter factory. If the price of cheese dropped, there would be an in.-tant depreciation on t r he buildings of 6s per cow—a cheap insurance, even if the factory was never used. GOOD OUTLOOK FOR CHEESE So far as could be seen, thpre seemed a better outlook for cheese than butter. Siberia would enter the market in aboat ten years time, but Canada in the meantime would gradually fall, out, ns hor trade with the United States develop W. If it were a question of only :nie factory, either cheese or bufter, lm porsouul opinion, forced practically against his convictions, was that it would be advisable to devote their energies to cheese-making. PASTEURISATION FOR. CHEESE

In reply to a question as to his advocacy of pasteurisation for cheese, Mr Dempster said that it had -not been sufficiently proved as a commercial proposition, and although many factories were starting it, h6 did not think it would be enforced. As in the ease of oream for hutteri the Department would not enforce it, buf, wcnld show that it was a good thing. Certainly more cheese and of a more uniform quality, could be made by adopting pasteurisation. WHEY AND WHEY BUTTER The dairy expert also strongly recommended the pasteuri-ing of whey. The only property of whey as calf food was its milk sugar, and one might as well use water for the purpose as unpaateurised whey, which when it turned sour, was acid, aad uselegs. Whey butter in Taranaki was equal to about .71 per lb of butter, and large quantities have been ! made ; sufficiently to pay the wages at the factory. Whey l»u.tt«r for export must be b,ran.d.e<l as, s.uah, but if fur lopal oonsutnpuon it could bo put up in any way that^the factories liked. SHIMMED MILI£ V. WHEY There was a grea.t diversity of opiqiqn regarding th,e regpeptiye values of §kjrum.ed. mUk <^r4 whey as feed for calves, hut Mr Dempster thought th- re was not so much difference between the two by-pro-ducts as between the men who coutrolled their use for feeding purposes Both were gqod fe.ed, fjv calves, pigs .fuuid fat^eu on w^ey, but nqtso n^any tys on sjamm/ji] niil^. In reply 10 a que?tian by th.c luan, Mr OMnp^lesr s^c^ $i\i\\ saw nu qi%u|fy in nwk'ng e'\«<i^ \\\ the \yhpr.H, if go 'd seed was notsnvn, bwd would c iiur v, reatlily, there would ha a little trouble with feed flavour^, but those would not be serious fino.ugh tq <^eha.r settlers frcjui gqiiig ir^ foy, Q^eese l^t^ki^g. wq^ld c|q a,w.ay t tv a Qe,rtP r in e^tept. >^itl\ th^s gre^ dirTiqul^y. WORD Ol' WAKXIXG Mr Dsmp.^ter di-1 not think it advisable for tl>e t'armors to go ill for f\ v.)u;;es;e>inak^nij V\&\\\ l.i'il^Q fhoy kne;v t\\sfi \hsy \y^lJ Aot }\'<i\-M c-ppv,:'^"ll- Tlie. ni^nvnurft ruiuib 'V <>f oi\ln\avy '<<\vs voquii^d \> mike a f/a;j:o>vy payablw was dopopdeut an oircumstancps ; it \<n<s a casp of a cheest; factory with oOG cows paying better than a butter factory with 750, bnth in the sane district. (From P^Tga-yiile V. Times V)