FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1919, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

Factory shares. At the Lcpporton Dairy Company meeting on Monday evening, the chairman stated that he approved of the factory liuyins shares from out-going farmers, say, at Ills and issuing not consider tlio newcomer should (jet ten not consider the new comer should get 10 per cent in the money. That should go to tlio suppliers. Mr Hardy .Tones held that a man purchasing a farm should bo able to buy the shares >'iili that farm. Mr Blackball considered that the. company would be profiteering with a man's hard-earned share capital. It was nothing to the company if a man gave his shares away to a supplier after they had been paid for. The secretary said that shares could not be taken by t'oreo without payment of full value. They could not refuse a transfer to a supplier but could to a supplier. 'i HIGH-TESTING MILK. | ITS EFFECT ON THE PAY-OUT. The vexed question of high-testing milk aa Influencing the pay-out at cheese factories was the subject of discussion at the annual meeting of the Leppertou Dairy Co. on Monday. In the course of his address, the. chairman (Mr H. B. Lepper) said that the moke of cheese, 255 lbs, with the average test of 4.1T compared very fa.voritbly with other factories, and though not so high as some was very, much higher than others, as for instance Bell Block factory, which with a test of 4 4 had a yield of 2.42, yet Tarikl, with an averngo test of 4.3, had a yield of 2.03. He could not, ho said; quiie understand the Question of the yield of cheese. 50,.,e slid that because you had a high average test you would not have so good a make of Iratterfat, but he considered that Tarikl disproved that, and it seemed in hint that the manager was the man who 90111 a give a goud yield, and he therefore had much pleasure in congratulating Mr Taylor and his staff upon the good returns they j had got this year. Whoy butter of 11,020 lbs realised £747, and more than paid wages. During the discussion on the report Mr .T. 0. Taylor asked whether the chairman could say how much buttcrfat went to a pound 01 cheese. Ho held that was where the leakage was. Mr Connctt had discovered that 3 5 per cent of the hutterfat content only went Into a pound of cheese, and the chairman's test averaged at times 5.5. Therefore he held that tills high-testing milk, was getting paid for hutterfat at the expense of tlio lower testing milk, being paid Is lOd per lb for what they got Is 4d for. In reply to Mr Taylor the chairman said that the manager took the test. Mr Taylor said that without making any rellectlon on managers, he thought tho Agricultural Department should be asked to sand : an oxpert round. The chairman thought that the Government should pay for the quality of the cheese. Mr Taylor held that they should allow. 3.5 test for tlio pay-out on cheese, any higher buttcrfat to be paid out on a butter basis. Ho challenged the chairman that there was not more than 3.5 per cent of buttcrfat In the cheese. Tho chairman considered that Mr Taylor was wrong in his contentions. He asked whether Mr Taylor wanted to make out that the Jersey milk did not produce as much cheese as the Holsteln. Mr Taylor: Not when tho test Is above a certain point. llu asked whether the chairmen would get tho Agricultural Department to send experts to go Into the matter. The chairman stated that after the reporters had done with the matter, Mr Taylor would get plenty of argument. Mr Blackball said that In his opinion the leak-age had largely to do with the question of the high-testing milk, and he suggested to tlio manager tll.lt he should on receiving the milk at the factory classify the milk, say, 3.0 to 3 8 In one vat, 3 8 to 4, and 4. to 4 2 in the other vats. He would thereby ascertain the proportionate butterfat content of the cheese at very little expense to tho factory and solvo the diffl. cully. It was computed that 30 of buttcrfat had gone into the cheese. He considered titers was :i leakage in regard to the sales. Mich cheese should be sold at a higher price than that made from a lower testing milk. The Uovernment demanded a dry cheese for export, but he thought they mado their cheese for local consumption too dry, as a moist cheese was more In demand and more eatable Cheese should be sold in its nwrlt3 in accordance with its butterrat contents. Until they arrived at this conclusion they would always have this leakage, Mr .1. O. Taylor moved that tho directors be requested to ascertain to a nicely the amount of butterfat to a pound of cheese, so that the surplus butterfat should bo paid for at the price of whey butter and no more. —Mr C. Muuro seconded The chairman stated that Mr Taylor was of the opinion they were robbers t ' was now anxious to be the robber himself. The resolution was lost.