MILK PRODUCTS.
DEMAND KEENER THAN SOPPLY. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW ZEALAND. The manufacture of milk products in Great' Britain, Holland, Canada, and the United States has recently been the subject of special inquiry by Mr W. Dempster, of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, who has just returned from a tour abroad. In his Teport upon his investigations, which appears in the Journal of Agriculture, Mr. Dempster states that it is certain the demand for milk powder exceeds the present production, but that how much\ further production can be increased without exceeding demand it is hard to gauge. When the milkpowder industry started in America this phase of the business was considered, and only buildings of a temporary nature were erected, so that the erection of temporary buildings was not to be recommended. If it came to the survival of the fittest, New Zealand would be one of those countries to survive, provided 'the quality of the powder was equal to that of other countries. There was every reason to believe that our powder should be equal to, if not better than, any produced, as our cows were mostly grass-fed and our pasture good. Jf we did not succeed it would bo because the manufacturer or farmer had failed to carry out the good work which the cows began. We could produce milk more cheaply than nnv other country, thanks to our climate, rainfall, and the milking machine. Mr. Dempster reoommends New Zealand dairy companies before embarking on the manufacture of milk-powder to watch the effect that the additional 3000 tons from the Dominion that has been arranged for wiH have on the market. Over-production of sugar or milk, Mr. Dempster shows to he probable. For casein there is a growing l demand. It pays to produce it, providing it is not more profitable to turn the skim-milk and butter-milk into pork.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1920, Page 8
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314MILK PRODUCTS. Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1920, Page 8
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