RETURNS FROM MILK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1869, 27 August 1918, Page 3

RETURNS FROM MILK.

THE GREATEST YIELD OF PROFIT. Dairy farmers admit they are doing remarkably well when they receive a return from their milk of 2s per pound for the butter fat it yields, and Is 8d to Is 10d is considered highly remunerative, as it actually is compared with pre-war prices. The New Zealand Dairyman, however, has discovered that “the consumers, to use a coloquialisra, have been getting it. in the neck. In the city of Wellington, for instance, they have been buying the milk for their daily household use at the rate of four shillings and sevenpence per pound of butter-fat.” The journal, in its showing how much more profitable it is to the farmer to sell milk for distribution in the city instead of disposing of it for manufacture into butter and cheese, proceeds: According to the law of England, food products must he sold by the sixteen-ounce pound, that is by avoirdupois weight, but we ridicule this law in New Zealand, because we pride ourselves on being so very up-to-date, so the foodfaker and the short-weight artist thrives and fattens the while some dairy factory is mulct in a heavy fine for selling butter that is a few drachms short of the sixteen ounces that it ought to contain. The prices paid for butter-fat are: For new milk in cities 4s 7d For fresh cream in cities .. 4s (Id For average cheese factories Is Kid For average butter factories Is (id The writer shows how economy may he effected in cooking, at any rate, by the use of dried milk, adding water when required. In fact, that is being dojie already, the water of the milk used in cooking evaporating during the process, leaving (he other constituents of the milk in the food, hut costing on present prices tor milk the equivalent of 4s 7d per pound for butter-fat.