MR CUDDIE'S ADVICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 49, 19 June 1914, Page 4

MR CUDDIE'S ADVICE.

Mr Cuddie's address to the National Dairy Association at Palmerston is a reminder of the great work ho has done for dairying in the Dominion since he took charge of this division of the Department of Agriculture, says the "Dominion." Continuing, it says: His efforts to win for Xew Zealand butter a foremost place in the market have been untiring, and the measure of success already won by the work of him self and his assistants, with tiie ]i---i-.ny co-operation of the factory managers and dairy-farmers, can be judged from the commercial cablegrams appearing in our columns week by week throuyn; the year. As everybody knows, wuv has had anything to do with dairying. Mr Cuddies has looked with misgiving on the growth of the home separation system. It is much to be preferred, of course, that the farmers should deliver their milk at the factories and creameries and the separation be done there, under the best conditions. The expansion of the industry and the state of the roads in many outlying districts have, however, made this impossible, and each year has seen a steady increase in the mimner of farmers who separate their milk at home and send the cream out to the factories. In the old days the Dairying Division was able to concentrate its educative work principally on the factories. Now every one of the hundreds of farmers with a separator has to he reached and made to feel, for instance, the necessity for absolute cleanliness. Mr Cuddie strongly urges that all cream should he graded and paid for according to quality. In this proposal he is widely supported, and probably no more effective mlans could be devised of maintaining the high standard already won by the Dominion's butter.