The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1886. A SUCCESSFUL DAIRY FACTORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2385, 28 August 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1886. A SUCCESSFUL DAIRY FACTORY.

We havo received, with feelings of more than' ordinary satinfaction, a copy of- the balancfl sliest of thn Tnratalii Dairy Company for the year ended on the 15th bat. Dairy factories have been tried in this district for some vears and n faronr experience of them hai been diahearteninp, as* they have been scarcely a success from a financial point of view. Ot the value of tlio cooperative principle embodied in them we never entertained the slightest doubt, but occasionally sound principles ate applied to the conduct of business without securing that indispensable boon, a credit balanco when amounts are made np. Thn TarHtahi Dairy Company has, however,, during the

paßt year demonstrated not only the Boundnesfl of the,co-operative principle. | but aleo the successful application of it, The. output of cheese for the twelve months has amounted to £2,152 10s lld,'aud the cost of milk and working expenses to only £171678 7dj yielding, and after a sum'of £66 10s 3d has been written ofi for depreciation, a clear profit on the year's transactions of £262. This-i'Milt stamps dairy fuctory busiiiess'aH a profitable industry in the Wftirarapa." We can temomber the time when this district oould not produce marketable chees? .of a high grade in any considerable quantity, but tbia unsatisfactory disability has been removed permanently by dairy factory enterprise. We question' whether, butter and bacon of a high grade can even now be produced in thin diatriot in any quantity, and venture to hope that the co-operative principle may be applied to these articles in their turn, so thai this distriot may reap from them the benefit which it has already

obtainpd ' with' "cheese! Times are changing, and an- immense amount of inferior produce which has been turned out in this district' for tunny years past -.unst be imprnvnd upon, or dairy lanuars will not in rt 'ule to conduct their business profitably, A; factory in which ut trained • expert' would prepuce butter and cure bacon : for fifty or a hundred farmers is the best iirni most economical method- of raising the grade of produce in this district." Of the Taratahi ' Dairy Factory, it is recorded that its cheese took the silver modal and first prize at the N.Z. Industrial Exhibition, 1885. An example like this ought to stimulate farmers in Wairarapa North to take advantage of the factory system. Three years ago we inquired of each farmer in tlio neighborhood of Masterton what amount of support he would give to a local daily factory, Tho replies frotii the farmers* were most reassuring, but tho business men of Masterlon were unwilling at the time to promote a co-operativo move menfc of this obaraoter, and so nothing wan done. Perhaps now the farmers around Maßterton are strong- enough to take the matter into their pwniiaiids and float an Association which will, like the Taratahi Dairy Company, become a benefit to the community,