GOVERNMENT CREAMERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1549, 11 May 1916, Page 4

GOVERNMENT CREAMERY.

‘•'An enterprise which is proving of national and even international interest, and a significant influence in community upbuilding,” to use che words of an American writer, Mr Morgan Barnes, is the experimental creamery recently established by the United States Department of Agriculture at Grove City, Pennsylvania. Officials of 1 lie Dairy Division of the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry had for some time been considering the construction of a dairy plant where research could 1)0 conducted under practical conditions and experiments made in actual, every day environment. The building was built and equipped by a local stock company. The United States Department of Agriculture pays rental, which covers interest. Operation is conducted by the Department on a co-operative basis, the Department paying the manager’s salary and all expenses of experimental work. The patrons receive all proceeds from the sale of products after the cost of manufacture, including taxes, insurance, fuel, upkeep and labour, has been deducted. The enterprise is therefore both experimental and commercial. Strict requirements are en-’ forced as to the quality of the milk and (Team supplied. Here is a part of the agreement : “Either milk or cream will be received, but either must be delivered every morning, except Sunday, sweet and free from any foreign odor. Haw material mint be of the best. Cream must test 30 per cent, or higher, preferably between 30 and 35 per cent. Milk and cream must arrive in good condition, so that a product can be made which at all times will bring (he top market price.” The .superintendent is A. O. Dahlberg, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and a practical expert in'all that pertains to dairying. The butler maker is N. C. Nelson, a Denmark-trained specialist, whose butter last autumn scored 05 in the Pennsylvania State College contest and 07 in New York, the highest grade in both eases.

Of the object and immediate plans of the creamery, Mr Dahlberg says : “A wide variety of experimental work is to be undertaken, the ultimate objective being to determine as detinitely as possible methods for the- production of high-class dairy produce, the causes of defects and their prevention. Of coui’se, many other lines of investigational work will be carried on, the definite scope of which will be determined later.”