FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

THE KAPONGA COMPANY. At the annual meeting of tin; Kaponga Dairy <Jo. tin- chairman stated that tho directing were offered 0 1-10(1 for their cliee.se output and many people called then) fools for not accepting what seemed a very high price. Other companies were offered the same, and one company, which was supposed to contain the brains of Taranaki, signed on the same terms as Kaponga— consigned at '•>% d guaranteed without recourse. This other company, hearing that a smaller factory had sold outright at o%d, considered that they had made an error, and recalled the agent. He immediately offered to buy half their output at Which they accepted. On that half they lost £7OOO. if Kaponga had sold at ft 3-Sd they would have lost over £4000; if they had accepted the G l-l(id offer 1 they would have lost, over £7OOO. (Applause.) The company paid an average of l-12d, and with the .bonus it would total Is 4%d for cheese. The company made butter for the first part, of the season and cheese in the next. The company are considering the question of instituting cow testing. THE OUTLOOK. The versatile Mr Turner, the wellknown London huyer, has been giving the Kaponga dairymen, the benefit of his views on the outlook for dairy produce. Some factories, he said, did the wrong tiling every year —sold when they should have consigned, and consigned when they should, have sold., Kaponga had done the right thing for the last three years, and their directors could not have done better if they had the best advice in llle world. But they must remember one | fact. If a company sold they had only [three of four firms to deal with; if they consigned they had thousands of. customers from week to week, and consequently got the highest market value. The latest London quotation was OAs for cheese. Last year Kaponga lost £ISOO through making butter till the'inid(Jle of October, in order to raise £IOOO worth of calves. That was not good business. Instead of worrying about co-operative stores it wrtuld be more, to the point if they worried out the problem of how to feed calves. Why was the cheese busi- i prosperous? Canada had been sending annually 100,000 tons of -cheese to England; to-day she was sending only 75,000. The young men of CanadA were gravitating V<> tlie North-West wheat farming, and Lomlsdale'g man ill Montreal —the biggest man in the cheese business in Canada —gave it as his opinion that in 10 years' time Canada would consume all her own cheese. New Zealand was. therefore, safe on cheese.' In reply to a question, Mr Turner said he did not think it necessary to pasteurise milk for cheese-making. It would require a costly plant to do that, and the same results would be attained if every supplier were careful to bring clean milk, to eliminate any inherent taint and to deliver the milk early and cool to the factory.