CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1922, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

RE PART CREAM CHEESE. (To the Editor.) Sir, —It will be a good thing for the producer, if the directors of cheese factories interest thamselves in Hawera’s experiment of part cream cheese. I am quite convinced it would be a paying pxoposition to the New Zealand dairy farmer. In the first place it would ensure better grades, and the cheese would stand the rough handling on the journey to England much better. We have seen reports where our cheese has arrived in London in 'a very bad condition; being cracked so much, which means a great loss to the retailer, in the shape of waste when cutting up for sale, therefore, when buying, the retailer has to allow so much for this waste, which means a great loss to the producer here. Secondly, if we manufactured a 50 per cent, cheese I have an idea that we might do away with the manufacture of whey butter, for there would be a very small percentage of fat left in the whey; and what little is left in would be a great benefit to the calves and pigs. For this we should be amply rewarded by the higher price received, for the fresh creamery butter we should have to sell in the place of whey butter. For sale purposes, I would suggest taking a sample from the vats when the separated and whole milk are w’ell mixed together; after testing, label the cheese made in those particular vats, as manufactured from milk containing the percentage of fat according to test. In England the farmer who manufactures cheese, invariably skims the evening milk and adds the morning wilk whole, I do not suppose any of this cheese made from milk containing more than 2 joer cent, of fat. At the present time Eng-

lish cheese is making about 3d per lb more than New Zealand cheese; therefore, the part cream cheese must be by far the most renumerative proposition, and would no doubt help to a certain extent in solving the problem of helping the New Zealand dairy farmer meet his financial obligations. Hoping Hawera’s experiment will be taken advantage of.—l am, etc., A. J. LILLEY. Warea, June 5. REMEMBER THE DEAD. (To the Editor.) Sir, —Urenui and surrounding districts are having the time of their life these days in going to balls and dances. There has been two balls and dances in the last month, and there are four or five more next month. I think it is time they had one in aid of the dead, so as to get some money together to pay a man to clean the Urenui Cemetery of gorse and blackberry, for it is a disgrace to the district. If you want to go in and see a grave of a dead friend you have to set to and make a track through the gorse and blackberry. On Anzac Day there was a track cut‘out of the blackberry and gorse about a yard wide up to the monument to the boys who died in the war, but the track went no further back than the monument, that is about five yards from the road. I suggest that, all should club together and do something for the dead and keep down the gorse and blackberry and let all other amusements go by until it is done.—l am, etc.,