CASEIN INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 February 1913, Page 3

CASEIN INDUSTRY

Iti is gratifying to see trat. dairy cam panics aj-e taking up the casein industry, says the Farmer's fJumo Advocate. Several companies have already established precipitating stations. Recently the directors- ol a number of .North laranaki dair> companies met at seven companies being represented, to uiscu.ss the question. The meeting was addressed by Mr J.. Pederson, the expert cf the Department of Agriculture,, who visited Kurope to investigate the question, and Jin furnished some very interesting information. ,Mr Pederson said there did net appear to him any possibility of. o\eiproduclion of casein, as its uses wore growing so last. On the Continent manufacturers were iinding that casein even at the big prices it had been bringing was warranted, and. tkev were quick to instal plants ..so that where other things had been used in the making of articles, more especially paints, size and paper, casein, was ri better substitute, and more economical. It was largely used whore previously gum arabic and glne wore- required, and when these men were prepared to throw out their oldormiriiv ory and instal. new, it showed tlVorr faith in the value of casein as a; commercial article. Tlio English mamf-ae-tnrei's were more slow to adopt new methods, hence the fact of "the bal.-i of the product being sold on tlio- continent, Ono important fact about , casein , was that if of good quality iffc did not deteriorate by keeping, and was as good in two or three years as when first made. Therefore, il sueli' a thing as a. .slmnp occurred it could be kept almost indefinitely imiil" such time as the market recovered. From all he could 'gather there was- nochance' of such a slump occurring, but he only wanted to point out tiae ; fact that low prices could always lie obviated. He had hee.n asked the ' question recently why ca-sein ?iad dn»p--ped in yalue to such a low price.. Thiswas accountable for by the fact tlints 1 a very poor quality had been- made l ., the natural consequence being-t3ia>t< i» poor ' price was obtained. Wii-li tlk« method in vogue to-day there wnfi-Tti > necessity to make anything-but a fl'irsi jclass article', that is with ordiiiaw T itelligence being brought tor- 'jca-tv ' in its manufacture. New Zealand' na" ilk was particularly -well adapted! iXtir ■ tlio "manufacture of casein, being: niis'i in quality, and so far as eoj.ihil see after investigation in Dcnmaak;, we could ])i:odu<-e casein qcpfrt?' d to the. host made elsewhere. bi) feeding qualities of the resnltniitt whev I ho could not speak'as"luviox-sjitig ienced farmer, but evidently it hull' a good, value when the Danes wentv- able to export yearly from £ls,oooss i) to, £7,000,000, worth of bacon; ('V j course, like many ether matters, fIW >re a di(Terence of opinion and' Hue supposed always would be. Ho '.wo i]d advise caution in the ex-pondit'iw - of large amounts for at leawt'th'e> jj/ .•osent-year iii the erection (if ■ --,j ;U its, and thought the fa'nctM's wy ~lc ] (,e wise in simply installing- dants fit pay one of their factories ft r creameries, and satisfy thoisiNelvoss; 0 f its benefits before launching-out'.. / These plants simply uiado tft'e grei-tjr , which was further (h-ult wit'lh' at the Aramoho drying station-. MulUf urst.has iust installed such' .t-'plaiuy a nd were working under thi> vondiit' ons .stated.