DAIRY CONFERENCE JOTTINGS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 9 March 1906, Page 3

DAIRY CONFERENCE JOTTINGS

'■ It's a line thing for Hie manager* and directors to rub shoulders like this. For the very reason dial townspeople are -more broad-minded iliau farmers and folks in the country, the fanners niusl meet one aim! her frequently and exchange views," said one of the factory people on Wednesday. " f reckon to lose two points in grading," complained a malinger, " because I have no freezing chamber, and have to keep my butter at liil or 70 degrees temperature." It isn't i|iiite fair to the manager, but nevertheless he generally scores about 1)3 points in grading. "When our factory slarlcd, our shareholders wouldn't eat our butter 1 because they reckoned the factories couldn't make it as well as the farmer's wives did. Now, if one of them runs out of factory butter, and has to buy a pound or two of dairy butter at the door, they arc never done apologising to everyone that comes to the house, usually remarking that 'its some wretched stuff we got from the store.'" —A tale of a director. " The managers as a whole know a good deal about grading, and some seem to know as much as we do," a remark by the Chief Grader at Moturoa. Every parcel of butler thai goes through the grading works is weighed. Of late there lias become noticeable an increasing tendency to ship short weight boxes of butter and the weights are certainly irregular. Out of the first six boxes weighed yesterday, only one was correct, the boxes right through weighing from 55li> 20/,s to 571b 7ozs. The weight should be 5(llh Sozs, iu order that, after shrinkage, olilb can be lauded ou the London market. While some of the blame is dii.' to Iho fact lluil scales vary, there can be no doubt thai a lilfle more care used m weighing would make the weight more uniform, and closer to the required mark.