DELIVERING MILK ONCE A DAY AT GHEESE FACTORIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1577, 12 August 1882, Page 4

DELIVERING MILK ONCE A DAY AT GHEE SE FA CTORIES.

fa milk to be delivered at the factory once or twice a day ? is a question which has many times lately been asked me. This question I shall answer through the medium of your valuable paper : We are going to have it delivered to us once a day. By doing so, we save much labour, time, and extra expense. With proper facilities for taking care of the milk on the farm, it is quite as well to deliver it once a day as twice. All that is needed is an open shed under which the evening's milk can stand during the night uncovered, and a double .set of cans for carrying. The night's milk should occupy all the cans till morning. This will spread it so much that no other cooling will be required than it will receive from the night air, except, perhap, occasionally in a very sultry and warm night. When such is the case, put youi cans into tanks or vats or some kind of receptacle, where they can be surrounded with cold water, and if you could get running water lound your cans so much the better. If you use well-water to stand the cans in, changing once before going to bed is found a good thing, stirring the milk at the same time. This will be found far less trouble than the extra hauling of the milk. In the morning, one half of the cans may be emptied into the other half, andthevemainingonescan be taken for the morning s milk, which should not be mixed with the night's milk before it reaches the factory. Professor X. A. Willard, in the Rural New Yorker, says : "This is a question ot some importance, one involving the expendituie, or the saving ot much labour and time dm ing the year in accordance with the system which may be adopted. For cheese-making, the night's and morning's mess of milk .are massed together at the factory, and immediately operated upon to convert it into cheese ; the raising of cream is not desiied in any part of the process, and all that is lequired is that the milk be s\\ eet and sound. If the night milk, therefore, can be kept cool at the farm (50 degrees) and delivered next morning in good condition, no lo&s will be entailed in eon vei ting it into cheese any moie than w.mld lcsult if said milk had been deluded at nisiht, andcaiedfoi at the f.uluiy. The custom of tss'ice-a-day deli mm y ongiiiated with the eaily factoiies, and the plan has been blindly followed Many supposing thcic is no other u.iy, while some farmers pi efer hauling mill, twice a day to taking the tiouble of cuing foi the night's milk at the farm. In very large dairies, such as ate often foiuid in No\\ York, ranging from 00 to 100 cows, this may be so, especially as more than one team might be requited to haul the two messes ot milk once a da) . With smaller herds, however, this i e.ison does not apply, and since it has been proved over and over again that the night's milk properly cooled at the faun can lie dcliveied next morning in better con lition than it would be if massed at the factory, on the twice-a-day pltin of dolnuy, there can be no good leason why Hie once-a-day may not be adopted whviio\er such a course is desired ; the once-a-day plan requires two sets of curij nit; cans, since the warm milk of the morning should not be mingled with the evening's) milk while being hauled to the factory "' He also remaiks that theic ate factoiies that have adopted this once-a-day pl.ui of delivery, where the finest quality oi the chee&e is made, and the manage] s .iHiun that they get much better niilK. on the onco-a-day plan than the other. Now I have found it is not in the keeping the milk during the night at the farm-houses that it is injured, but it is in the transporting of milk in closely covered cans that does moat of the injury to the milk. No chance X given for the accumulating odour to escape. Milk which appears well when it starts from the dairy, appears affected when closely covered by the time it i caches the factory, even if it has but a short distance to go. By having plenty of ventilation in the lids of your carrying cans, milk which would injure by tiding "under a tight cover, will grow better the farther it rides, providing it stops short of sourin* or churning to butter. Jloiuit, WALroL*;. Te Awainntui

The new pure cash system now being niti.ited by G. and C. will certainly pro\e a benefit to the public. It has been a great success in Sydney and Melbourne, j»nd when strictly carried nut the customer ""who bujs at an establishment where the goods are marked low to ensure .1 rapid sale must be a great gainer. G. and C s»l) their di.nperj , faiilliner}', and clothing at surh prices for cash as gives tbc buyer the advantages <if a shaicholdei Si a co-operative socict)', without the risk of beir.gCdlled upon to bear aportion nfihe loss should the year's business prove unsatisfactory. Garlick and Cranwell will aim to retain the confidence which the public Lave bithei to &hown them, and a'rfe 'determined to give the pure cash system a fair trial ;■ whether they gain or lose the first year Country buyers on remitting cash withordei will be supplied with goods at co-operatve prices ; just the same as though they made a personal selection. .Furnishing goods, such as carpets, floor .cloths, .bedsteads,- beddiner and general house furniiure, the largest portion of which is ifcirrfcd'out at our own factory, willbe marked at the lowest remunerative prices, and a discount of five per cent, will be allowed to' those who pay at "*iße time of purchase.* G. and C. having realised - the entire VAl«e_of, their s^otk'.dqnng their late > cash Hale, the present stock if xuw and cheaply !? novGUT.-rA n inspection invitod.-rGAiajcK and sp CRAJJWELt. City HaUlFnrnisbing Arcade Queen

CAMBRIDGE TO \VN - BOARD.

I — / — JTiik usual monthly meeting of the above I board was held at the Town , Board ,' Office, Cambridge, on Monday evening ilast. There was a full attendance of 'commissioners present. The usual preliminary business was disposed of. • Town Drainage.— A scries of schemes for the more effectual drainage of the town were submitted by Mr flosking, ,C.E., and it was decided to call for • tenders for the same in view of ascertain- ; ing the probable cost of the work. 1 Clements v. Board.— The chairman said in this matter he had suggested that ;the hearing of the case should bo adjourned till the next sitting of the Dis- • trict Court at Hamilton, where, he be- ' lieved, it would 'suit the convenience of all parties ebneerned. Judge Macdonald ' had been apppointed sole judge in the matter. Overdraft. — In reply to Cr. Nixon, the chairman said the Bank of New ; Zealand was now charging 8% on the board's overdraft. The Railway Station Site. — The chairman read a letter which he had forwarded to the Minister of Public Works on this matter according to a resolution of the previous meeting which approved 'of the Government taking the whole of the sections between Whitaker Terrace and Queen-street, instead of half as proposed. Ranger.— Mr Godfrey Collins was appointed ranger for the ensuing year. Hall-street.— A petition was received from the ratepayers of Hall-street, asking to have that street properly formed, and complaining of the dangerous state of the road on dark nights. It was agreed to give attention to the matter. Bad Drainage. — William McFarlane wrote drawing the board's attention to the quantity of water lying about his house, there being no means of running it off. At present his house was completely isolated by water, and the unwholesome vapour which arose therefrom was proving injurious to his wife and family. It was agreed as the ground upon which Mr McFarlane resided was Government property no assistance could be rendered by the board. As the Government had got the money for this propei ty it was thought if a scheme of drainage was carried out that they should contribute their quota as well as the board to the necessary works. The board sympathised Mr Macfarlane in his trouble, but could not assist him, and would have to refer him to those from fioni m horn he got his land for consideration." BRYOK-hTRKET.— A petition was received from the ratepayers of this street, drawing attention to its dangerous condition, ami asking to have it formed.— On the motion of Cr. Hewitt it was agreed to form the following streets with Constabulary labour. — Taylor - street West ; Bryce-strcet, from Duke-street to Queen-streut ; Hall-street, from Hamilton Road to William-street; Alpha-street Weot, ft oni Victoria-street to Greystrect; and Grey -street, fioni Alphastreet to Queen-street. — Cr. Nixon suggested that about twenty loads of gravel be put on the lower part of Chapel-street and on the footpath in Duke-street opposite the Masonic hotel and Clements' new building. A discussion ensued. — Cr. Kirkwood said he had done more gravelling on his own account than any man in Cambridge.— Cr. Hewitt did not see why they should gravel footpaths in fiont of everybody's door. None was ever put before his door. A motion in accoi dance with Cr. Nixon's sugges tions -\\as then put and carried. Sanitary. — Cr. Nixon proposed, "That the time lias now anived when the earth closet system be adopted in Cambridge, and that an efficient person be appointed to carry it out." — Cr. Nixon endorsed hi& proposition with a lengthy statement showing the desirability and necessity of something being done in this matter. It \\ as agi eed to let the matter stand over until the board has heard from Inspector Thompson, re the appointment of officer. Accounts.— Several accounts were passed for payment. This was all the business.