CHEESE PRODUCTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 10

CHEESE PRODUCTION.

The result of inquiries made recently gives a clear indication that a substantial increase of cheese production by factories in and handy to Woodville may be ragarded as certain. Apart from slight losses or gains as between cheese factories, such as might be incidental to newcomers of others voluntarily deciding on which factory they will supply, the aggregate accretion of milk already being supplied to the several cheese factories is evidence of a response to the Government’s request for more cheese this season. The position with the cheese factories indicates a transfer to at the expend of butter, although increased output of milk from individual farms likely to be a contributing factor, especially under the present favourable seasonal conditions A number of former butter factory suppliers have voluntarily diverted their supplies to cheese, but in this connection it appears that the final arbiter is the hand of the Dairy Division, which, as will be seen from a communication published this week, is authorised to enforce the provision of emergency regulations governing the dairy industry. Power is given to compulsorily divert milk supplies to cheese factories as is deemed necessary to ensure the required increase of the cheese output. A continuance of this pro's?, farmers state, is bound to disturb the operations of any company manu facturing butter exclusively, and such action no doubt will depend upon the prospective output of cheese as' far as may be judged by the diversion of milk supply up to the present time. The AVoodville factory had already increased its plant from five to six vats to cope with normal • growth, and the management expects the factory to be working to full capacity any day The Riverbank, Hopclands and Papatawa factories. each with a small increase of suppliers are on a satisfactory supply basis for the season, and have, good prospects of bringing' their respective outputs of cheese up to the Government’s requirements. In a number of cases transfers of suppliers were brought . about by friendly conference.