DAIRY FACTORIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1929, 15 November 1884, Page 4

DAIRY FACTORIES.

[Canterbury Pkkss.] Tin; report of Mr G. liowiou, Inspector of Dany Factories, was l.nd bcfoie 1 aili uiionl last week. It is a lengthy document, giving full details of the working of thy v.uinus factoiies during the p.ist year. I make the following extract : — There are fourteen factories, which have been managed by directors during Hie past season, and five conducted by ptivate gentlemen. Most of the factories only made a commencement in the way of piepaung for another season. Where ten tons were made in the past fifty will be made in the future. Thoie will be twenty-three factories at work in the coming season, exclusi\e of six or seven private ones. 414 tons of cheese have been made in the factories dining the late season. Dairy factories with 300 cows each will produce on the lowest calculation 1000 tons- That at the nveiage Loudon price (that at which Ashburton and other New Zealand cheese have been sold, viz., £6.3 per ton) will produce £G3,000. £22,900 have been expended in buildings and plant, and over £4000 on the purchase of land. There are other important points which should not be lost sight of, that is the amount ot labour which dairy factories create wherever they are planted and worked successfully. In the United Kingdom 3,600,000 cows are kept, and 180,000 families are engaged in the occupation. By their industry wealth to the amount of £49,000,000 stei ling is created per annum. We have no statistics before us to show the number ot hands which this industry c \lls to its as istance. One thing is clear, that it sets :n: n motion almost every other branch of industry. New Zealand has an area equal to that of the United Kingdom. The soil is more productive, and the climate for dairy purposes second to none in the world. Every factory creates Inborn and pays for it with what the cows gather from the soil. Take one f.ictoiy. They have paid for milk £1113, and produced about forty six tons of cheese, which sold for £2990 '•toiling, leaving a balance in the hands of the Dnectuis of £1.~i7 to meet all contingencies. America. with her factoiics for cheese and butter, icccives £500,000 nlo'ie in Biitwh sovereigns L\ciy year; Holland, for butter aud chouse, Cl t .58(),980 ; Fiance, for butter alone, C2,520,05(j ; Belgium, for butter, C3o2, ')!).'*. It would 1 c a strange thing, indeed, it New Zealand, with her space and productive powers, could not put in lift- claim tor a .share of "British wealth. We have only to nuke the piime article in buttci and cheese, and then no power on earth can stay the How of gold in this direction, Mi Bowron emphatically p\piesses the opinion that England is the muket for the largest quantity of New Zealand daily pioduce. He adds, the repoi t w Inch is now presented is far from what it ought to be or will be in coming time. When all the factories got into a piopcr wot king otder we shall be able to give the numhet ot cows that supply the milk ("o eich factory, the quiutity deli veied, the weight of cheese pioduccd, and the number of pigs fattened. In looking at the operations of the last season and the i pports published, asnperhYril leadet would consider that the outlook for the futuic is not bright. We mu fit not close our eyes to the fact that every human enterprise at the commencement has unforeseen difficulties to con tend with and oveicome, nor would it be difficult to show that this was the case with chec3e and butter factoiiei in j Amciiea and in England. It is clear that New Zealand factories are not exempt fiom this ; that is, having to pay for your experience. A number of factoncs ha\c been elected without proper knowledge of what would b" required, and this involves considerable loss. First, the best maiket is to be found out, the quantity and mould, and the cheese adapted to the said market. Many changes will have to bo made tins ycai, for London is our principal maiket, and the small lump cheese suitable for colonial purposes arc not tlie cheese lor London, w here cheeses fiom 701b to SOlb aio the most suitable. Buildings elected without mature consideiation and inexperienced managers ate cci tain to involve considerable loss. There is aunotcr source which materially affects the interest of the Company. Theie ate faimets who supply milk to the factoiies whose only inteiest is to get as much out of the concern as possible, without taking any nsk. They willingly contnbute milk dm ing the season in plenty, when butter is only 3d per lb, and withold it in the time when butter is seal cv at Is Gd perlb. Even dairy holders, without matuie consuleiation, do this. They have only to weigh the consequences to be convinced of the injustice. Inthoeouise of his leport on dairy factoiies Mi Bovvion, the Inspector, says Flenungton Dany F.ictoiy, Ashbank, has been in operation two jears. (/i eat impiovements have been made upon the fiist yeai's operations CoiiMdi'iable lo*-s was sustained thiough not being able to deliver their cheese in London at the proper tune This yea 1 ", thiough the excellent .it i.ip^einent of the New Zealand Ship ping Company s fine fleet of steamers, the cheese lias been delivered in London in good condition and at the proper time foi making the highest pi ices. A quantity of this cheese was delivered in London last May, when it was not more than twelve weeks old. The weather was exceedingly hot when the cheese was delivered, and the ouly complaint was that some of the consignment of fourteen tons was soft, and would not realise the pi ice of cheese matuied by ago. The quantity of cheese made this year is near fifty tons. The w 'lole was sold as it matin cd for sate deliveiy, and many applications have been made which could not be supplied. One ton of A^hbuiton dices" was put chased and placed in a prominent position in the Great Health Inhibition in London.

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