CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4296, 16 December 1892, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Dairy Factories on Sundays.

[to tub HDiion.]

Sin-Kindly grant me space 111 your columns for tho following : At tbo meeting held in Mauricevillo a few days sinoe, Mr H. M. Bees, from Norsewood, was, it seems to me, rather liberal in his speech, In a buainrSß suoh as our dairy factory, he ought not to interfere in the matter or Sunday working, and especially so as he is a stranger to our district. If peoplo wish to work their Dairy Factory on Sunday kt them do it: Mr Rees cannot prevent this.

Tliero was somo suggestion, too, that people should come and blook our sleam whistle with hemp and other things, I say let them come, they shall bo quite welcome, and I shall be prepared to receive them. Mr Pees' speeob indicated little knowledge of dairying, otherwise he would not talk as be did. I shall in the following try to show what iinmenso locs it would cause to keep dairy factories, with 1000 gallons of milk oach day, closed once a week One thousand gallons of milk delivored at the factory, with a consumption ot 25lbs to mako one pound of butter, (at IOJd per lb,) will make 4001D3 of butter, worth £l7 10s, or in 30 Sundays (a season) it will amount.to £625. If, now, this 1000 gallons is kept at home and made into butter with n consumption cf 88tbs of, milk for each pound of butter, (this is the lowest possible quantity of milk wo can put down for homo manufacture in the summer time, without a cream separator) we only get 8081b, which at 7d per lb equals £Bl6s 9d, or in 80 days, (being the Sundays during a season) it will amount to i2OO 2s Od. '.his will show a loss to milk suppliers (provided they are shareholders) equal to £25917 a 6d; besides this, they will have to keep dairy utensils, etc, which means additional expense. But this is not all. If we cannot work our dairy factories on Sundays, we might, of course, keep the cream from Saturday's milk to Monday. Butter produced from this cream, however, can only be of inferior qurlity, and would he at least one penny per pound less in,value, Besides, if sent Home with first-class butter, it can only result in a bad effect upon the Colonial butter trade. We can only work our dairy seven months during the year, consider that. I know, and Mr H. M. Bees may know too, that in our own country (Denmark) not ono out of overy 500 dairy factories keeps closed on a Sunday. If it were otherwise, Danish butter would not have gained so good a position as it holds in the English market, Hoping that Mr Bees will not often interfere with our dairy business in Mauriceville,

I am, etc, J. K. CIIRISTENSEN, Manager, Mauriceville Dairy Factory. 15th Decoraber.