QUALITY OF MILK SUPPLIES.

Putaruru Press, Volume III, Issue 94, 13 August 1925, Page 7

QUALITY OF MILK SUPPLIES.

CLEANLINESS ESSENTIAL. Question of Inoculated Cows. At the annual meeting of the Tatua Co-op. Dairy Co. on Monday, Mr. W. Harkness, Government grader, advocated the adoption of payment on grade as the fairest and most honest way to pay for the milk supplied, stating that if 75 per cent of the farmers could bring first-class milk to the factory the other 25 per cent could do the same. The farmers should use boiling water and a httle bit of ■elbow grease, and there should be practically no second grade milk sent to the factory. He would never find fault with a little bit of mud round the cowshed, the farmers could not be expected to concrete the whole of their farms, but they could keep the .machines clean.

The chairman said he had advocated .the grading of milk in the past, as one can of milk could contaminate the rest, but he considered that the refusal of bad milk might adjust •matters. The manager had now instructions to refuse indifferent milk. 'They must discuss the matter with the solicitors before this was carried as the payments might be affected.

Mr. Harkness stated that in some cases the latter of the milk from a cow might show a slight tinge of blood. This milk was ho good.

Kr. Lynch: How about making the supplier drink a cupful of his milk if he says it is not bad?

Later, Mr. Lynch asked if it would he too much to ask the factory manager to report upon the milk supplied ■foy those who had their cows inoculated against mamradtis as compared ■with those who had not. He moved in -this direction, and the motion was carried.