Dairy Factory.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 279, 22 October 1884, Page 4

Dairy Factory.

The directors of the Paterangi O'Vaikato^ company have taken a new departure in the dairying industry — writes the local correspondent of the Waikato Times — they have purchased a creamer, and will begin making butter in the course of ten or twelve days. Butter made in a factory 4s superior to the generality of butter made in small dairies, as it is of an uniform qual'ty and is made by machinery. Mercnants are fully aware of this fact, and as a rule prefer butter so made to that made in dairies. One Auckland house has offered to take all that is made in this factory. As a matter of course the operations of the factory will not be confined to butter making ; cheese will also be made, and it is intended to keep pigs this year. The prospects of the factory are very bright indeed. The cheese made last season took so well that some of the Auckland houses will take over thirty tons at 6d cash at the railway station. This price will pay not only the suppliers, but the company also, for the direcsors have offered to make for l]d per gallon, a price which will pay, and at 6d at the station a good margin will be left for the farmers- Cooperation is finding favour all over the world, and under certain conditions succeeds very well. As applied to such industries it would answer admirably ; in fact, I believe it is the only correct system. Factories worked on this principle can be worked -much cheaper than in any other way. As a matter of couse, the suppliers have to wait a longer time for their money, but if the cheese proves good they get a better price for their milk than if sold at per gallon. Sixpence delivered at the railway station is as good as 8d in Auckland, for there is neither freight nor commission to pay, and the money is paid on delivery, so that by waiting till the cheese is ripe the suppliers get 4sd, less the the trifle for carting from the factory to the station, which is far better than 3£d monthly or quarterly, for at the outside they will not have to wait more than four or five months. Some would like to pay 4ft, or more for the milk, but the directors have no right to pay more of the shareholders' money for milk than a private company, for it must be borne in mind that many of I the shareholders live outside the i district, and have no interest in it.