THE WAIKATO CHEESE AND BACON FACTORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1775, 20 November 1883, Page 2

THE WAIKATO CHEESE AND BACON FACTORY.

Wk l>.iid a visit to this f.ictoiy, noai H.uniltoi), on Satin dtiy last, and witnessed the piocoss of com citing tho milk into cheese. Tho whole, opeiation is simplicity itself. Tho machinery employed has alic.ifly been fully noticed in those columns, but meiely diy dot«iils can convey no adequate impiession of the method of wniking. Thoie is no him y, no ruslrin" about, the cntiic piocoss Ls c.uiied on with the utmost ease from beginning to end. The milk is received, weighed, and transferiod to the circular vat with a minimum expenditure of manual labour, and it- comoision into curds and whey is effected in the quietest and most regular manner by machinery almost automatic in character. Nothing but a peisonal inspection can give a ju^t impression of the internal economy of the factory, and those inteiestcdin thoindu.stiy should go and i«ce for themselves. In tho curing loom we saw some 200 cheeses, to all appearance thonmghly .sound, marketable ai tides, and we do not doubt that they will, when sent out, command a le.idy sale. The piggeries, by no means an unimportant adjunct to the factoiy, it> stocked with upw.nds of 100 pigs, but the whey pioduced is sufficient fo» a much laigei numbei, and the stock will have to lie mci eased. Aniongnt the \i,sitois at tho factoiy on Saturday w as Mr D. L. Muidoch, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand.