The Dairy Industry.

Manawatu Herald, 6 January 1894, Page 3

The Dairy Industry.

Mr N. McKeever, representative of Messrs Coey and Co., Limited, produce and dairy brokers, of 45 Tooley-street, London, S.E., who have branches in Liverpool, Mancheater, and Glasgow, is at present on a visit to this colony for the purpose, of* seeing how the dairy industry is worked here, and he intends to follow up his course of investigation by making practical suggestions to his firm and also to producers in the colony for the better eouduct of the trade in. dairy produce between this country and the Home market; So far he is well satisfied with, what he has seen in the country. The principal thing he suggests is that refrigerators should be started in all the butter factories, with freezing works at the various ports, with the view of keeping the butter at a temperature if possible of, say, from 25 to 35 degrees, which I emperature the firm have practically arrived at as the safest for the conveyance of butter to the London market. They had not only proved the benefit of this in shipments of goods from the colony to Home, but they had also practically tested it by having some butter, made on the

same -lines as the colonial butter,

shipped to Melbourne partly in a *■• frozen chamber and partly in a cool chamber. This butter, on arrival, was inspected by several experts in Melbourne, and it was acknowledged by all that the frozen butter was worth from 8d to 4d per lb more than the other. After leaving Dunedin it.is Mr McKeever's intention to vicit the principal dairying districts in the North, with the same object as that with which he came to Dunedin. - Dunedin Star.