HOW TO PAY FOR MILK.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 152, 30 October 1895, Page 4

HOW TO PAY FOR MILK.

Mr M'Ewan, the dairy expert who was recently in the South Island, and who aetid as instructor at the Wyr.dhnrn dairy school recently told a newspaper reporter that his first impressions on arriving in JN'ew Zealand from Canada were not favorable, and they had not changed. The prevailing syaiem of paying for ir.ilk he did not approve of, either on a proprietary or on a co-operative basis. There was tco much speculation— in fact, it might be called gambling—in paying for milk. The purchaser had to rake bis risks of the markets, and a fair and equal proportion of the pioOt—or losses were out of the question. The proprietors of one of the factories in tho North Island had, a short ago. to esk for a rebate of their payme.its for milk, and several like unsatisfactory errangements in the course of the industry pointed to the w< akness of the system. In the Canadian system, which took 35 years to bui'd up, all the parties interested in the returns of the market participated equally in the profits—thereby carrying out the fundamental principles of co-opera-tion.