THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1908. ENCOURAGING CHEESEMAKERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1908. ENCOURAGING CHEESEMAKERS.

The Committee of the VVairarapu P. and A. Society propose ottering prizes for the best exhibit of cheese for the London market. It is proposed to give the cheese-makers a free hand as to th& class of cheese they may malie, and to have the exhibit graded m the Dominion, shipped to an agent at Home, and there finally graded. The graders' reports will be written out and given under seal to the Secretary of the Company, who, also, will receive the report of the Home graders oil the quality of the cheese, and its suitability to the market for which it is designed. The Department of Agriculture has been for years endeavouring to secure a uniform quality of cheese throughout the whole of the Dominion. The cheese has been graded by dairy experts at the various shipping centres with this end in view. The companies

which ship Home receive reports from their London agents, and it frequently happens that the cheese bearing the lowest grade in New Zealand gives better results than that beaiing our Government graders' higher marks. Several of our cheesemakers contend that the ctieese rfoade for shipment does not contain enough moisture, but they dare not have more moisture in the cheese or they would stand th'j chance of having their product fcrinded second grade. It is with a view to giving cheesc-makers a chance to put on the English market the class of cheese our makers consider would find favour with the British public that this latest phase of oflaring prizes in this direction is being made and the results wiU be watched with interest. Should a more moist cheese turn out a better article on reaching its destination it will not only mean a higher selling value, but there will be a saving of one or two per cent, in weight, which to a factory shipping cheese to the°value of £IO,OOO would mean a gain of £IOO to £2OO. The experiment could do no harm, and may result in great gain to the industry. Step* are being taken to have the question of the grading of NewZealanJ dairy produce in London discussed at the coming Winter Show at Palniersto.') North. Probably Mr D. Cuddie, Dairy Expert, who is now touting Britain in the 'interests of our dairy export trade, will have something to say on the subject on his return to New Zealand.