THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 55, 5 March 1903, Page 4

THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

STATEMENT BY MB KINSEILA. 11k Kixsslla, Diiry Cjmmiesioner, emphatically denies certain s'atements which have bsea published to the effect that the dairying division of the Department cf Agriculture is not giving any assistance to cbeesemakc-rs in Taranaki, .and that the grading is much more stringent than it was lastyear. In answer to a question on the subject, Mr Kinsella sud the statement were without foundation. There was not one requisition from cheese factories in Taranaki that had not been attended to. He admitted that there had been some little delay in attending to a call at the Hawera cheesa fdctoiy daring his absence in the Auckland province, owing to his instructors being busy with other engagements. It was not true that the best chee-:e-imker waa occupied wholly in the wors of grading. The chief chtese iostructor, Mr SingletoD, was busily engaged four or five days in the week in the 0-ago and Southland district, at the work o ; "coat-off" instruction at factories. Besides this, Mr Singleton had attended a numb.r of meetings of suppliers, and had also visited their farms, with a view to improving the milk supply. Mr Dumbitton, of New Plymouth, h«d also visited a number of factories in th; neighbourhood of Cardiff, Stratford, Toko and Mang*wtka, during spire time at ths Moturoa works. Mi Dickie, during the past ten days, had been doing practical instruction in ih~ cheese factories in the NUrlborough and Nekoa districts.

With regard to the statement that the factories had not been able to score as wall as they hat? don' 1 si yar, Mr Kinsella pointed out that, on 1 e on frary, the average pi us scored by cheese factories during the pas'; stasor. wera higher than for Jast year, and al though a few factories in faratmki were not quite up to the standard ef 1-s' year as regards qualify, that was no' due to any al:*ration by way of raisin? tne standard for grading. It was cot correct that many of the factoriesscored barely over 88 point- 1 , for of the Taraiuki factories had been and were scorisg ninety-one to ninetythree points. Mr Kinsella sai-% how ever, that there wes plenty of room fir improvement in the actud mamfac uri at some cf the cheese factorieF, in the sanitary conditkm prevailing, in the quality of th° milk suppiy,"-atid in the instituting of better means for control ling the curing temperature. All this he had strongly advocated from time to time. The older the cheese factories got, he said, the more difficult it was to keep the surroundings from becoming seeded with all sorts of dangerous organisms. To show the importance of this, Mr. Kinstlla that in Canada, Professor Rotertson bad gone 60 far rtfe to recommend the removal of old factcries from their original sites, or else the building of entirely new factories in another locality. Mr Kinsella thought that New >Zeilanders could also take a lesson from Canada in the direction of ia.rrovicg thecuringrooms.