DAIRY PRODUCE QUALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 30 November 1907, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE QUALITY.

Til 10 IXFIOKIOR MILK TIiOUISUO. POSITION IN TAIUNAKI. A meeting arranged by .Mr. Singleton, (loverniuent Cheese Instructor, is to be held at Ilawera to-day (Saturday) of dairy factory director* and proprietors to consider the question of securing an improved milk supply, principally in Hie direction of entering inlo an agreement not to canvass for suppliers to opposition factories, and declining lo accept milk from a supplier whose milk has been refused at another factory. The trouble with inferior milk is not so serious in the northern districts of the province, the proportion of secondgrade produce going through the New Plymouth grading storcis being no more than can be accounted for by the unfavorable season. And this 'fact indicates that the rivalry of opposition factories is an important contributing cause of the trouble, as there v. little competition for milk in northern districts, while it is strong in districts in the southern end of the province. Referring to the large proportion of

I second-grade dairy produce this season, a leading Taranaki dairy farmer, in conversation with a Wellington Times rcI presentative, puts it down in Hie majority of eases to the keen competition for milk. He declares that some directorates and proprietors in districts where rival concerns are in operation compel their managers to light for every pint and refuse nothing, with the result that Die manager lias no check on ipnility, has no encouragement to (urn mil. a good article, anil has to content himself with aiming at quantity alone. Certainly competition for milk in districts where factories arc working against one another—in some instances co-operative in name, hut not in spiritis doing irreparable injury to the industry, 'the farmer in question declare' that if the short-sighted factories whr are accepting inferior milk do not ai once mend their ways the (lovernincnl must be appealed to to bring drastii legislation to bear on the position.