STRATFORD DAIRY COMPANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 71, 29 July 1913, Page 5

STRATFORD DAIRY COMPANY.

ANNUAL MEETING

After the luncheon adjournmon

yesterday, the business was continu td.

For the vacancy on the directorat caused by the resignation of Mr J C. Robson, nominations were receive* as follows: —Mesrss Bowling 31, Paul get 25. The 1 former was declarei elected, and returned thanks. Mr T. Harry Fenn was re-electe. auditor at the same remuneration. OPENING DAY.

v .Moved by Mr Rawles, and seconder by Mr Were, that the main factor, and those creameries which are read} open on 4th August.—Carried. BUTTERMILK. Mr Rawles started a discussion o. the system of the' distribution of but termilk at the factory. Some got a ranch as, if hod more than tiiej wanted, while others got none. A jocular remark with a siniate meaning: "Ii a man was there wit two guns he could not manage tod the distribution satisfactorily." The Manager (Mr Kirkman) sab that this season the buttermilk woul be attended to.by the boy in the sam. way as he looked after the skim-milk Mr Were said it had been decide long ago when taking in outside suji pliers that the buttermilk should b< long to the Stratford suppliers as : slight return for having borne tb burden of the £13,000 liability an having put their shoulders to the whee at the beginning. Mr Lehmann said tho fight was be tween the local shareholders, and i always would be. If it was sold it won!' not bring £2O. For the carting c £6OO of cream tho cost was £2 eac 1 and the outsiders must take that int consideration. Those who were amoo tho first got plenty, and the late comers got none. Mr Rawles was a 1 ways late, and if he cared to hustl ho would get his share. Mr Rawles: That does not apply, r for five months I did not take any. The Chairman said that skim-mil' and buttermilk gave a great deal o difficulty; all factories were in th same position 1 more or less. Durin tho coming year they were spendin a considerable amount of money, an there would be more satisfaction tha in tho past. It was understood tha the buttermilk was for the Stratforc suppliers. If they sold it, as sug gested, they would not get £4.0; one in reply to tender they were offere' £lO. After what Stratford supplier had done in putting the factory o' its feet, they were not getting mor than they deserved in having th buttermilk. They would not get £ out of it if they sold it, considerin tho trouble and oxpnso they woul have to go to, and that amount wa not worth bothering about. After a few short opinions had bee-

expressed, mainly on the propositio to sell the butetrmilk, the matte

d topped

PIGS AND BACON. Mr A. Morton addressed the meet ing on "Pigs and Bacon/' explaining at length the working and finance o the Inglewood Co-op. Bacon Co., am advising Stratford farmers to take u. shares. At the conclusion of his remarks, after answering sundry en quiries, Mr Morton was accorded :

hearty vote of thanks. A fuller repor of the discussion will appear in to

morrow's issue

"OH, CERTAINLY!"

The usual honorarium was tmani mously voted to the chairman, tl)< only voice heard above the acclama tion being "Oh, certainly."