SHANNON DAIRY COMPANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 924, 29 November 1910, Page 3

SHANNON DAIRY COMPANY.

The Shannon Co-operative Dairy Company Limited, have recently installed a pasteurising plant for skimmed milk at their factory at Shannon, and another is now being installed at the Company’s Moutoa creamery. The Government dairy experts consider that by pasteurising the skimmed milk a great amouut| of the tuberculosis found in calves and pigs will be prevented. The grade of butler at present being turned out by the Company is one of the highest on the coast, practical!}' the whole of the output reaching 93 points. The amount paid for butterfat is at the rate of ud per lb., which is a most satisfactory price, and in excess of that generally paid. The Company has made arrangements to consign the year’s output of butter with a guarantee of eleven pence per lb. The supply of milk at present is iar in excess of that of previous years, and at the present time the daily output of butter is five boxes more than the highest tally for last year. When it is taken into consideration that the top ot the season is not reached until well on to the end of December, it will be seen that the supply at present is most satisfactory. The directors, manager and secretary are to be congratulated upon the up-to-date manner in which everything in connection with the Company is carried out, as the Shannon factory is undoubtedly one of the best paying concerns in this line on the coast.