OUR MILK AND HOW WE USE IT.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 63, 8 February 1895, Page 2

OUR MILK AND HOW WE USE IT.

(to the editor.) Sir, —Passing along tbe Main South Road, I often think there is something wrong with our milk management. Our farmers get up early in the morning to get the milk ready for the factory, and I sometimes notice two able horses required to haul six or eight milk cans a distance of three or four miles. After hauling these over this distance of the rough, bad road, the milk is left standing in the tin cans in the factory yard, with the sun beaming on it, any length of time from an hour to four hours, waiting to get passed through the separators. Our farmer then gets his load of skim milk and drives away home, generally in good time to get the cows in for evening milking. Now, sir, I feel that this farmer is doing more than necessary work ; that the milk is not fairly treated, aud if the butter produced realises top price in the London market the management is not entitled to any credit. There must be a remedy. Will some one kindly propose it ? lam sure you will be good enough to allow the space, as the butter is a large item for this coast.— I am, &c., Ulster. Pungarehu, Feb. 5, 1895.