THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1915, Page 2

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

ADDRESS j;v DAI RV OOM'.UISSIOXER. PIIURLKMS OF THE FUTURE. 'At tiie I'ulmerston Xorth 'Winter Show on ~\lr. J), Cuddie, Dairy ■Comm: -loner, gave a yew interesting i address to the Xational Dairy Association Conference o u the future of the .New Zealand dairy industry. He. first refer, red to the phenomenal prives received for all produce. The average was 13."i» (id |rr <-wt. for .hotter and Sfis per cwt. for cheese. The quality of the produce, generally speaking, was an improvement oil that of the previous year, and the average grading had been one point highei' all round. There had also been a reduction of ?,'/,. per cent, in the production of second quality cheese. It went without saying that a large quantity of really first-class cheese, had been made, which would compare with the best of any other country. iSome 3fi per cent, of the total output was first-class I cheese, but it should he the ambition of

every factory h New Zealand to turn out only first 'lss cheese. The less they said about inferior cheese the better; but he was glad to say that the quantity of it had gone down. Mr. .Wright, inspector in London, bad made scathing reports upon such cheese; but, instead of publishing them, the Department put itself into direct communication with the factories concerned. The •whole question of quality mainly resolved upon the quality of the milk. The cheese-maker, of course, must do his ■part. There, were only two ways of dealing with this matter: (1) by rejecting the millc at the factory and following up this with instruction to suppliers; • (5) by paving a low price for low grade milk. That was a. matter for the factories themselves to settle. The factory managers, however, had not always set'a good example to suppliers. The factories should be thoroughly clean, neat and attractive. The managers should practise what they preached. A NEW ERA.

They were at the beginning of it" new era in "tint manufacture of cheese. He referred to the pasteurisation of milk for cheese making. They should he very careful in connection with this. It was most desirable to adopt the practice, but experience was required in its employment. So long as particular cart, was taken to see that everything connested 'with it was perfectly carried out. 'he (believed that cheese-makers would derive considerable benefit from pasteur-

isation. Mr. Cuddie then referred in detail to suggested improvements in packing the cheese. Considerable progress had, he was pleased to say, 'been made already in the direction of packing. Much improvement, too, had 'been effected in the quality of the -cheese through the adoption of cool storage. He was in hopes now that something would 'bo done in the near future with Tegard to the establishment of a <eool store for cheese in Wellington.

: WHEY BUTTER. Whev butler had been exported as factory butter, but it should be branded as whey butter in order to conserve the liigh reputation of crcaihery butter in the Home markets. Notwithstanding tile increase of cheese manufacture, the 'manufacture of .butter was also increasing. He did not think that butter would be a diminishing quantity. The quality of the butter last season"was generally excellent, and with respect to some of the leading brands he would say that no better butter had ever left New Zealand. Almost half the total output could .he classed as 02 points and over. Ho believed that there was now scarcely a factory in New -Zealand where home-separated cream was not taken. The difficulty was the keeping of the cream on the farms; but with care in keeping and in manufacture of the 'butter really excellent results had been obtained. Crading cream had given very satisfactory results. As a general rule the body and texture of New Zealand butter was good, hut there was a tendency in some quarters to overwork the butter in order to get the best overrun. Thi« was prejudicial to the quality when it reached the' English market. There, had been over-moisture in the butter, resulting in the prosecution of some -retailers in England. In future tlw Department would have to adopt very strong measures to prevent that kind of thing.