NEW PLYMOUTH WINTER SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 282, 28 March 1913, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH WINTER SHOW.

(T» the K.lilur). .Sjr,-T would like to draw the aftcu'oii of beekeepers in Tarauaki lo the Winter Show to be field in .1,,,,,., ail d fope that those whlV arc interested in the busy little bee will try and make a in splay or the various products of the ||Pmry at the above show a credit to iaranaki. The schedule will ;.'ive ample scope to even the smallest 'beckeei)'v Kl'il tile prizes will no doubt be well worth competing for. Own,..- to the accident which befell me in the New Year ami which has prevented me from »etting up a general collection as I intended this year, I trust others who have ««t shown at New Plymouth will „i ve ns their help this year. Under the cir will do my best, whether or competition or private'display I therefore appeal to beekeeper, in 'both North and South Taranaki to "ive their support to the apiary section on the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th June, 1913 —■ I am, etc., O. J. HERRICK. Sentry Hill. DAIRYMEN AND FACTORY MANAGERS. Sir,—l also, like "One of the Growlers" writing in, your Wednesday's issue am very much interested, being "one of the Czars," and I feel sure that many of your readers also are very much interested to hear of all the funny business m this branch of the dairy industry of this Dominion. From a general view of his letter. T must give rav verdict that lie is a typical "growler." and myself as "growler" admits, "A Czar of J7 years'" experience, but I cannot agree with him that I am as he says "almost perfect," but somewhat, like himself, am made with a strong back to bully a living out of the "poor down-trodden dairy former" which is, I admit, far ahead of milk-, ing cows as "Growler" suggests. "The Czar," then, must have some brains, because he gets £3 per week for himself, but the "Growler" or dairy farmer only gets £2 per week, and pays away to the other fellow £1 10s per week.' and he then only has 10s per week for himself against the "Czar's" £3. To make it plainer still, I mean by the other fellow, the land-owner whom the dairy farmer has bought or leased his land from, and paiil too much for it, or, in other words, the dairy farmer has spent the money before he' earned it, and he is then only entitled to his 10s, whereas on the other hand the "Czar" must live also, and on the dairy farmer, but as the "Czars" a?ain show more brains they are not as far as they are able going to help the "'Growlers" or dairy farmers to pay for this dear land, or allow Billy. Tom, Mary and the wife slave to pay the bill. Anyhow, further figures on this point are 'not required, but "One of the Growlers," no doubt, is very good at figures, as he also appears to have them at hand, at anv rate in the moisture line. Many typical "Growlers" I have known are always on the lookout for moisture, especially if they get a chance at the skim-milk tank or 'whey vat. They collar, if possible, all, the moisture in the form of skim-milk or whey and again figure out when thev get home how many more pigs they can fatten, or calves they can rear, if' thev can beat the other dairymen for a few gallons daily during the year. Of course the moisture added to their cream and milk is calculated quite easily by the tester, as no butter-fat is contained in water, as the "Czars" try to explain, and, of course, the "Growlers" do not like this. Since "One of the Growlers" has enlightened us all with the figures dealing with moistures in different things, such as beef steak, eggs, raw potatoes, prunes, etc.. which' "centain such high quantities of water compared with butter, he must surely think we are all mugs to compare the two. Firstly, meat and vegetables were manufactured by Nature and finished to be sold with all this high water content, which man cannot control to a rery great extent, whereas with butter, Nature made the butter-fat and the water also, but left the dairy farmer to add it and employ -these "Czars" to do so at a navvy's wage Again, when Nature moulded meat and' vegetables she did not put in so much that it would run out of the boxes, or melt away in the paper while Mary is carrying it home to her master's supper, like the butter would do if the "Growlers" had their way of bumping in all the moisture they' liked, and "ask their Is 2d per lb. This is, then, the reason why a limit is put on moisture in butter, as it is too dear even at Is per lb to rear a family on. With reference to the "Czar's" faking milk tests, sufficient has already been said. We all know that Mr. Caddie's latest circular to dairy companies on tha bad quality of produce * should stir these dairymen to cleaner habits, many of which 1 would not care to ask you to print. At the same tiine let me. bring to all these dairymen the words Mr. Ruddick, late Dairy Commissioner, said while in New Zealand, when he compared the dairymen of New Zealand with the Danish dairymen who get all the high prices: "In' Denmark the dairymen put on the cleanest clothes, white suits, and we in New Zealand look the dirtiest. As to dirty dairy factories in New Zealand, we have no complaints, and besides the factory inspectors are always on the alert, or instructors are always visiting, and at the ports the graders soon squeal if the butter boxes are soiled or cheese crates dirty, but there are, no inspectors to look up the dairyman's milk shed and cow yard, his buckets, milk carts, his cattle and the milkers." What about those dirty t'!-'k!n.r machines., sent to be scrubbed i.r> al the j factories? f- this not <= uH" : 'icti: evidence why. "Oars" turn away this •'tainted" unclean, sour milk when (bey get a chance, in.-tead .-if h'v:nr {■■< ieakc a good box of butter or a cheese out of 'stuff which is only pig tiirker, and costing New Zealand dairy farmers thousands of pounds every year? Anyhow, take my tip for it,' New Zealand will have to change her system. Times have been good, and while there is some little chance it is wise to make the best of it, instead of growling and sweating others. Buck in and alter this easy-going style about the farm, as this in the starting point, and work and brains, without growlers, will do it or the oleo man will soon have 1 the best stuff.—T am, etc.. "ONE OF TIIR CZARS."