MILK FOR CHEESE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 19

MILK FOR CHEESE.

i QUESTION OF QUALITY. DATA TO BE COLLECTED. I (By Telegr iph.—rress Association.! PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. The revival of the old controversy of } the insufficiency of the Babcock test for . butterfat content as applied particularly I to milk for cheesemaking, was the cause j of a conference at the show grounds ! to-day. The meeting was attended by i representatives of Friesian, Ayrshire and Milking Slion.liorn breeds, who decided j to await the results of a scientific investigation, to be conducted near Hawera, to'" determine the relative values of Jersey. Ayrshire and Friesian milks for cheese rnakinp. that is. lo ascertain over the whole season the average number of, pounds of cheese made from one pound! of butterfat derived from the milk of the ! various breeds. j The experiments are being carried out j under the auspices of the South Taranaki Dairy Federation. The herds chosen for the test are those of Messrs. F Mills (Ayrshire). IT. E. Batten (Jersey). : and L. E. Johnson (Friesian), the pas-! tures of the farms lieinpr similar. | Mr. AY. R. Wright (Rahotu. Tara- j naki) described the present system as dishonest and degrading to owners of high-producing but low-testing herds, nnd quoted (ifrnres showing that the lower the butterfat test the greater the yield of cheese per pound of fat and the greater the grain to the factory in pay outs, of which, however, high-testing owners reaped an unearned reward. Other speakers, while not subscribing to nil of Mr. Wri.Tit's statements, declared that inequality existed and sought a remedy. Mr. YV. M. Singleton, director of the Dairy Division, said that so far there had not been evolved a test for casein that could be put in the hands of factory managers as satisfactory as the existing one. \ committee, comprising Messrs. F. Mills (Hawera), W. R. Wright (Ra-j hotu). D. J. McLowan (Auckland). H. J. j Marchant (Cardiff), and L. J. Wild (Feilding) was appointed to draw up data from the Hawera results and to report to a conference in one year's time.