Dairy Factories.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 175, 23 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

Dairy Factories.

In the United States of America, in Cheshire and other English dairying countiee, in New South Wales, and elsewhere, one consensus of opinion has been arrived at about dairy factories, viz., that they grow m public favour wherever they have once been established. Any single factory may or may not pay • that Is simply a question of management— of the quantity of milk supplied, of the price paid for it, the quality of the product turned out, and the prices realised for the cheese and butter. The history of the movement, so far as we can ascertain after some study of the subject, may be summed up as a steady progress of opinion in favour of a truly co-opera-tive system of factory dairying. From New South Wales we now hear that " centrifugal separators are proved by general experience in New South Wales to pos sess all the merits which their advocated claim for them, and it is doubtful if the new system has made such triumphs in any part of the world. The explanation of the wonderful triumph of separators in New South Wales, and with those who have tried them in Victoria, may be attributed to the climate. In a cool climate the separator has much to recommend it, but in a warm climate it has the extra claim of increasing production. The loss of cream in the Aus trulian climate is so large under the old milk-setting process that the separator in saving this loas at once proves its utility to the dairyman. He sees that he obtains the whole of the cream even in the I most unfavourable weather, and he at once recognise? the magnitude of the I loss which he has been sustaining under the old system. The discussion in regard to deep setting and shallow setting shows how important it ia to obtain the whole of the cream. The separator se ties the question by giving the whole of the cream without fail, and in giving it in per feet condition. The saving of labour, the better quality of the butter, from tho cream being always in good condition, and the saving of expense in providing dairy room, are all points in favour of the separator, but in the Australian climate the increased production resulting from saving the 1ob& of milk and obtaining the whole of the cream is, perhaps, the strongest recommendation of the new system. The same correspondent reiterates the remark so often made as to the saving in labour and says : " The saving of labour removes much of the drudgery of the dairy business. 'Don't our wives like the factory !' expresses the feminine sentiment upon this branch of the subject. The men are also at liberty to pay increased attention to cultivating fodder crops, and generally giving better attention to cattle. 'If the cows could speak they would support the factory, 5 is a remark which shows the tendency of the system in this direction." We commend this testimony to those who aie still , wavering as to whether they shall support the dairy factory movement or not. — Hawera Star.

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