DAIRY RESEARCH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 14

DAIRY RESEARCH

SCIENTISTS CONFER RESOLUTIONS PASSED Press Association PALMERSTON N., Today. With the meeting of 18 dairy scientists at the Dairy Research Institute at Massey College this week, there was instituted a movement of paramount importance to the d*.iry industry, it being the first meeting of this nature to be held in the Dominion. Tho main work of tho conference was to endeavour to standardise the technique and methods of analysis employed in tho various laboratories, in order that the results of different laboratories might be strictly comparable. Tentative methods of chemical and bacteriological analysis of milk, cheese, butter, casein, and other dairy products were agreed upon, and these will be tested at each laboratory during the coming year. It is hoped, at a later conference, that it will be possible to reach definite and satisfactory standards. It was decided that the second annual conference should be held at the Dairy Research Institute in 1930.

It was resolved that:—“This meeting considers undesirable the addition of water used for flushing through milking machines to the main bulk of the milk. This practice may lead to contamination of the milk, duo to the use of polluted water, and may also cause losses of fat and casein in the manufacture of cheese. The meeting desires to emphasise the importance of enforcing the portion of the Act prohibiting the practice.” The meeting also discussed the investigation of Mr. P. O. Veale, of the Hawera laboratory, relative to payments of suppliers for cheese. A resolution was carried: —“That this meeting considers the report of Mr. P. O. Veale, in Bulletin 9 of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Researph, on the relative values of high and low testing of milk and cheese-making in New Zealand, of such basic interest to the cheese-making industry in this country that the members are of the opinion that the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research could well extend their work to include similar observations in other parts of the country, and inquiry into the economics of high and low testing of milk.”