Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4373, 13 February 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes

iMEKENCE AT STRATFORD , J2</v’• ' * .i: .' (of lust week) says the JJJHiTs’'- : Uuion Advocate, a represenf§H conference of dairymen and- reBHiiativea of dairy companies, pre* over by Mr J. Marx (MangafgH was ; held in the Borough IjHhera, Stratford, to consider the { ffH ,s ‘ d regulations as to registration, of dairies, under, the >H Industry Act, 1908. 1 There - H 47 present, including the followBH.irlia m entary- reproaen fatives : ‘^B -8 B. Dive (Egmont), J. B. Hine, BBford), and H. J. H; Okey (TaraSjlH. Siveral apologies for- un» . BHahle absence or non-represent-. Hera received. motion was proposed to the |IH that the, conference desires to j §DlHiio dairying regulations imposed. I HH Hall (Mangarei) in support of t gUßotion, contended that no system HHspecition could reach the main . H—the methods of milking. Hughes quoted figures to show made by Patea and MotuHjy second grade. He held that v Hite rest ought to protect a Hr if he was up-to-date.. BB Wills (Kapuokonui) thought HHf they had dairy inspectors like inspectors there would not HHctV to complain of. He was in of the regulations for the of the industry. BBM Swadling (Kaponga) explained , people cleaned things up 888 the inspector was coming round He believed in re ?ulanot in the tax. He thought |||||Hnen who milked three cows be given a shilling instead of a shilling, especially when was talking about surpluses (laughter). People supply good milk to the or stay away altogether. He ;.A J |Hit regulations were necessary. speaker said that someHBH owing to ten per cent of the inferior the other ninety was spoilt ■ while another BBH)t believe in the Government iyf H too much in hand, though he £&Hit inspection was necessary up %J«rtain point. HHH Chairman was of opinion that of the right sort would ■e the industry. There were in which some people jjggjH to go out of their way in be dirty. It was the adminHHHn of the regulations that many feared, but the matter had H|Bo much discussed that it was to suppose that the regugpfflill would be administered in a manner. speaker said that inspecnecessary to deal with a few HHH who would otherwise injure by their carelessness. HHDeem (stock inspector) exthat the work of inspection B|HHt taken up with an educative HHH The main purpose was to ■gHe farmer by showing him how improvements in milking and stock, etc. Regulations, he were to be enforced in the S&fSB interests of the industry, but intended to hamper it. Each IMHhould be treated on its iudiHgsH conditions, and nob by hard HHt regulations. It was the inof the Department to assist HHH, and not harrass them in any

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Jrown (Midhirst) said there question that many dairies ;o be improved, but there was :al dread of inspection. He t agree altogether with Mr is 'he'.knew inspectors to assist lard and fast rules, which the > present discontent. If Is inspection,were conducted so le educative, then he would I it. He explained the diffi- | companies interfering with | suppliers, and favoured some Inethod of inspection.

[ding a statement made by a ins to the -regulations dealing minimum distance a pigstye l placed from a cowshed, Mr tinted out that there had only te prosecution in Taranaki tat regulation, which showed [inspectors had not been hard irmers. ‘‘ l J;

•own (Maketawa) contended rete floors had nothing to do a milk—the milker was re- . ' It had been said that God would not make a dirty j, and certainly an inspector He referred to a grievance by a neighbour having his [of blackberries and ragwort, l what was the good of in[f that kind. He held that lection was not. necessary as industry had worked out its tion. .If ten. per cent of the bad, as stated by a previous It should be sent back.

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