DENMARK'S RIVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 7

DENMARK'S RIVAL.

COMPLIMENT TO N.Z. ' I

DAIRY METHODS COMPARED. POINTS WE SHOULD WATCH. Kew Zealand dairymen nre the only 1 ones in the world feared \ly Denmark, 1 so learned Mr. W. Garrett, who has '•> just returned to Auckland after a seven i) months' visit to Europe. During his ! tour he visited Denmark, Norway, and 11 Sweden, inquiring into dairying matters : in and also saw what was being i done in the United States. When seen ■ this morning on board the Niagara, Mr. j: Oarrett said he was convinced that New < Zealand had nothing to learn so far as ! she had gone. Tliat was to say in the ' methods of manufacture, but he was I much struck with the need that existed for going in extensively for research work. Denmark was far ahead of ua in that respect. She had colleges and special professors who were all the time ( making investigations and doing .research work. New facts were being discovered, new methods evolved, p.nd if New Zealand did not, take a leaf out of j Denmark's book in thia respect and set I up research colleges she would find her- i self being left behind, because competition was so keen. Tt was while he was in Denmark that Mr. Oarrett heard one j !of the leading professors say that New ] Zealand was the only country they I feared as a competitor. Mr. Oarrelf found that the Dnnes excelled the New i Zealand dairy farmer in the matter nf cleanliness. They also went in keenly for intensive cultivation—in fnct. thpv j . "cultivated rirrht up to the cart tracks." , I In London the Au<*klander found that ! New Zealand's produce stood very hiiyh i Jin the estimation of the trade and the ! miblie. He gathered, however, that New ' Zealand should pay increasing attention ' to the question of excessive moisture in ; I the butter, and some of the cheese crates j were not arriving in the crood order I that was essential. Questioned with I regard to the price of New Zealnnd butter on the London market, Mr. Garrett said his firm conclusion was that i when anything in the nature of a "peak" j was reached sellers should realise im- : mediately. Mr. Garrett was convinced that the prices were regulated entirely by the housewife, and when butter got ; to what she considered an excessive ', I price she simply stopped buying-, j switched off on to margarine or some other substitute, and butter was very slow in coming back once it fell. Dairymen must get hold of the fnct that they j must base production costs on a reason- j I able price in London. Mr. Garrett was not much impressed with what he saw in America, and considered their methods were not equal to those prevailing in New Zealand.