The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1888. "MONEY IN MILK."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2945, 9 July 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1888. "MONEY IN MILK."

A Mr M'Calmsi is about to visit tli Waitarapa District as Governmen instructor in the art ot making, an we presume,'packing and exporting cheese and .butter. Mr M'Calluc has the confidence of those member of the House of Representatives wb take a special interest in dairy pro duce, and be is specially accredited b our own representatives, Messr Beetham and JiucLanau. It is on! fair to assume that he is a practica man who thoroughly understands tli special business of converting "mil into money." This, of course, is th real problem to be solved. Alread; in this district two factories at Grey town and Claroville have solved tin less difficult probloin of convertini milk into cheese. As manufacturer of cheese, these two factories hav been a marked success, they bav cleared the local market of the inferio irticlo, which prior tO | their inaugur ition was saleable in local stores Now, none but first-class cheese i kept in stock, and this first-class chees is turned out of an oven grade by th lairy factories. As yet, the loca factories do not appear to hav undertaken the manufacture o butter. At any rate, inferior sample of butter are frequently obtainable ii ill parts of the district, and tin would not he the case if a dair, factory were turning out an evei 'juality of this article in raorketabl juantities. The meaning we take i jf Mr M'Callum's mission amongs us is not to show us exactly how t make good cheese, or even perhap ;ood butter, but how to turn thes aodnctu into money. We believe th iwo local factories have been steadil; osing inouoy since thoy wero firs naugurated, and we sincerely trust is a shareholder in one of them, lha ilr M'Callum will be able to slim km how to reverse their paa inancial experiences. In Masterton vhere larger capital is obtainable, am vlieio a more considerable area c ;ood grazing land is accessible, w iave no dairy factory, but have beei lontent to watch our friends am leighbors at Olareville and Greytowi pending their substance on unrqiniin rative curds, but if the M'Callum i o throw some new light upoi hese adventures, and he is prepare! o prove that thore is "money in milk' fo ought to mako much of him i) ilasterton. Let us hope that oui former's Club, which always sconn 0 be going to do something, mi lever doing it, will give Mr McCallun , recoptioii, and find out all he know: bout dairy factory enterprise, ant ihctliev it can be made to pay here f milk can be converted into money ; he visit of an Inductor ongtytt oean a good deal to us. It is pos.aiblf ill- McCallum might submit somi chemc or project by whicka dairj aetory could be established in Master' on with brandies at Mauriceville, )ryerton, Mangam&llflg, Eketahuna, jid other outlying settlements. There I'Duld be little difficulty in finding apitalfor such a venture if it could 10 demonstrated tjiat such an enteririse would pay. This pugbt jto b.e a plendid field for dairy factory enteririse, in fact we ought not to treat Mi ilcCallum as a visitor, but make a igrmanent settler of him as managei if a big batter, cheese, and bacon oanufacturing and exporting Coralany. Fourteen years ago Masterton ras spoken of by an enthusiastio Weiington auctioneer as the New Zealand 1 Chicago." We have unfortunately lone but little to sustain the honor diichwas then conferred upon- us, iut there is nothing to prevent Mas.erton becoming the Chicago' of New lealand. The Chicago of America is city containing half a. million cf icoplo, a centre of ptouomotial growth

mainly attributable to enterprise in .;' grain, flour, and pigs—particularly r pigs. It would be unwise to despise-f such bumble products, as milk and? grain and pork in building up a great | and prosperous community, Out of' such elements they make towns'in the United States compared with which Masterton is a miserable hamlet. Just at the pretent time we want some now industrial enterprise in Masterton, and there is none we can think of which the distriot is so specially fitted to develop, as-the one it is Mr M'Callum's mission to advocate