OUR DAIRY PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 18 August 1914, Page 6

OUR DAIRY PRODUCE.

! KEKiuxu rp tii>: quality. LTFKCT 01-' TLIiXIPS. "Xo.liing but tlio best .article will command the best price on tin- markets of the world today, and if we wish! to compete w iih margarine Wt . must make a good artic.e. Tin- consumer will no,, take tuniipy butter when something more wholesome is offering," remarked Mr J. Brown, chairman ot the Mak.,tawa Dairy Company at the annual meeting last week, during the course of a dismission on the tll'cct that feeding ou turnips fctis mi butter. j n introducing the subject, he said it wasan. evergreen question. ItJmd been' stated that he agreed to allow timii/iv milk to be used, but thi., he stron».V denied. Even when the pasteuriser was being installed, hit had warned thc.iii that it must not be expected to curall evils. If .suppliers did not give vh,' manager the best milk L was impossible to expect him to give them a firsl-class article. During the export season, the grade had been very good, the factory being four.h on the grading list at Moturpa, but in the winter tlicy got a lot of second grade butter, with" a*~fooinote marked "tuniipy." The difference 'between first and second grade butter was 2d per lb., viz., Is and lOd respectively. If suppliers were prepared to take lOd for their winter butter, the factory could take any milk, but he felt that the majority wanted to K e-t a* much as they could. Two or three suppliers would spoil Js,. whole output. Jt had been said that if the. cows were jiidicious:y fed on turnips no harm v.ould result, but he had no faith in this, and. lecc-crdingly, never fed his milk cows on turnips. He knew well enough that if the directors permitted suppliers to feed their cows on turnips for an hour a day. some of Micm would keep their cattle on-it night and (u,: He had always favored , lie ai:iana:rcr being instructed to refuse milk show'in" even the slightest taint. That, he felt] wiw the ouiy cure. Later, Mr T. Conic- asked if it was .true that th,. w. • . a ;. 1 ;.. W;ls >iU) . jict to reduction because of this w--1 ond-grade butter, and on the chairman | replying in the affirmative, he stated I that he diil not thfink that th.? manager should have to suffer for the sins "of the suppliers. A voice: lie has power to refuse the milk. Another voice: Yes, and if lie docs, h : would 10.-e his job. and we would not be able to run the factory in the winter. Mr Ilash-tt thorn;!., that they shou.,l put ir. oats instead of turnips. Mr Domiiroski considered that ther. would be no winter supply if -,hcy wciv not a lowed to feed ou'turnips! lie thought tint it wouhl lie better to feed on turnips and take the oil ilk: every day. rather than feed without turnip., and | take the milk every three or four days, He did noi think, under the rin-uni-stances. that first-grade b.i ter could lie giiariiitei'd in every c:im>. Mr lliues Ho'iur!: 1 ! that it was no fault of he manager if he (urned out MM-oml-LTad,, l,ii ter when -applied with •tuniipy milk. It. ('.is poinfe-I ,„!( t I-rl I the S.-COUC.-grad:> butler was only prodi; n-i dennj, the winter, when tl.e butter went, on the 1 Ml nn-k-t. Th.- cka'rinnu n plied Ilia the lix :i' market, p-id t'n- !„■-; price, and it was u»t fair {'.:■' it should - t - ■!« l-ernle hut er. They s'.,rild strive to rea-li l'--l-vv;u!-. hnih winter and siv -. The dir—tor- We'o LioMer In eive tile maii-i-n- fni 1 , ,rrol an I ianfipy h;-; would be seal bnek. Mr l.Vnnro-ki point,.] on! th' -n ri . ri-k. Some w.iv of oondon tin! it \W.IM be better to CO-.- t 1,.. fa-.ov ie the v.inte) if tuniipy m'dk we- mi,,--plied.. On the motion of M. ■-:■.- .<•: v,.v,, an! firs ,' wis resolved ihi ,' i- m-eiin-; taken 'b .-'•!•- 'dir-e!,,-- v, i!;!''re-a'i I''t,, tainted :■■ : i!r. A it- linn l>v V-. Dodun-ki. lnt miii; hj, -:-.,,!,, d. !ap-e,] for wi,,' '■!' a -e - o\c-cr.nie lie luniipv 'II ivor. lm. I - ,' ~]i;prnian waned the siiie.ilic- that leev ■v.tiil,! he liable under the I've I'no Is Act.