FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 48, 15 February 1908, Page 6

FARM AND DAIRY.

SUITS v. NEW ZKALAND UIKDDAIi. Speaking at liiven-argill the* other day -Mr. Singleton, Acting Dairy Commissioner, referred tu tlie respective merits of Seats and New Zealand cheese. Alter some experience of. Scuta cheese and Scots methods' said .Mr. Singleton, he was quite prepared to admit that t',e Home product was north a good deal more than the imported stull'. He had seen cheese ten or twelve weeks old as clean in the llavour as one could wish to have it. After seeing the manner and the conditions in which tho milking was done he came to the conclusion that it was there that the defect in New Zealand and Canadian methods lay. So Tar as the actual manufacture was concerned he was inclined to think that New Zealand managers were aide to make r cheese quite as well as the Scots chcesc- [ makers. He had been borne out in tl/1 [ opinion by buyeos he had milted that tln'.te-iltfVroTN'ew Zealand w-TVatlier liner. The Hritish '"KiWhnd was verv similar to ours, now | that the Home makers had adopted Hi,American method. They were lirinly of opinion, as he was, that it was ncce,.sary to have a good linn-bodied and >•■■' a meaty cheese, in order that it should hold its liavour. That also had ben gathered in experience in New Zealand. JJTiat he wan most impressed wiih throughout the Scots system was the maintenance of scrupulous cleanliness m milking: one of their practices in (his icpect being a liberal use of the white KJ-li brush in llie bvrcs. The cheese they were trying to make in New Zealand ivs« of the qualitv asked for on Hie l!iiti-h market. the whole tendency nt trade was. he found, agaiu-t strung thivuiii's. not only in cheese, but in almost every class of food product. He was more than ever certain that it was only the be-t qualities of cheese that always -lire „f |i,„li, [; , ~ market, and he had not met any merchant* who said thev had found lirs[grade ipialily bearing a second-grade • tamp. New Zealand coloured cheese might sell rather better if it were a lit lie more highlv coloured, lint otherwise |„iyei> were satisfied with the way in which our produce was shipped. There was also much virtue in a good brand on goods of unvarying ipialitv. In this connection merchants had told him that they liked'-New Zealand impress brands much better than stencilled brand-, because lliey were alm.-i.-l impossible of alteration. '