Butter Fat Competition.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8100, 29 May 1906, Page 2

Butter Fat Competition.

(To the Editor, i Bm,—Your correspondent, "Butter Fat," is rlj»bt. I made a mfoealculation through ojiisrcadingyour report* butmy contention is perfectly iDfjuttd, Tbo award# nhoald be uiado ln proportion to the commercial value* of the butter fat and the residual milk. When inTarariaki ibis week I found | that separated milk had bocn «o!4 from faetorla* at on© farthing par gallon, and at the present market price of weaned calve* and store pigs it. k not wocth more. If, for convenience of calculation, we value butter fat at tenpeneft per pound and separated milk at a farthing for tan pounds, then on© pound of better fat is worth four hundred time* we much m one pound of separated milk, bai according to the proposed conditions it would only rank as twonty.fivo times more valuable, thus unduly favouring tho exhibitors of cowh yielding large rjuanti* ties of very poor milk. What are fair average valuos of milk products ? It would bo interesting if the Association could arrange for a meeting of breedere to diaousn these question* at the Winter Show,—l am, etc., A. Buchanan. Jersey Holme, Paluieraton North, 26th May, 1906.