DAIRY FACTORY MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1922, Page 7

DAIRY FACTORY MATTERS.

BUTTER OR CHEESE? Judging by complaints made at various annual meetings of Taranaki dairy companies lately, there seem to be suppliers at factories who take away more skim-milk than is their due. The last to the factory appear to go home at times without' any whey at all. Vancue remedies have been put forward to meet the difficulty, including the installation of a weighing machine, but at one meeting the opinion was expressed that this could easily be “faked. A timely word by the manager when he saw suppliers going away with than was their due was advised by •some. Others maintained that the only wav was to appeal to the honesty of suppliers in the matter. It seems a thorny question to decide. Cheese or butter? That is a question that has agitated several cheese factories recently, and the matter has been debated fully at their annual meetings Of course with such a varying market agents are unwilling to advance a definite opinion, though they have, in one case at least to our knowledge, given it as their opinion that those factories making cheese should continue making cheese One small cheese company was -verra canny,” and decided to turn tto butter carrying on with the same plant for the beginning of the present season, and later look to the cheese market. If this was favorable, then the company would revert to cheese. A prominent dairv company secretary, on being asked his opinion, said that, taking an average through last butter was the better proposition by about IJd to 2d per lb.