DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 285, 1 December 1928, Page 12

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

CO-OPERATION SPREADING.

"RELIGION" IN DENMARK.

MILK-VENDING IN SCOTLAND

(By Telegraph'.—Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, Friday.

The principal impression gained by Mr. C. J. Parlane, the new general manager of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., during a recent tour of England and America* was that co-operation was being regarded as the one and only means by which dairy farming could be made really profitable. This was heard on all sides, in America and on the Continent.

Mr. Parlane found that in Denmark co-operation was really the national religion, and was not only employed at the manufacturing end of the business, but in the market end as well. The Danish dairy farmer had long recognised that it was not only necessary to cooperate in marketing but that the price must be fixed as well. The Danes naturally use discretion in the fixing of the price of their butter. They have to take into account the market, position in and even on a favourable market use the necessary judgment in their priceflxing, in order that the price will not seriously; curtail consumption. The Danes, it was'found, co-operated in every conceivable phase of their business. One reason why they have been encouraged ttt db this was because all their co-opera-tive undertakings had been established) in a manner that any farmer co-operat-ing could' not possibly escape his obligations to his fellows.

One of the most interesting recent developments: in co-operation among far- ! men was the establishment of the Scottish .Milk Association for the supply of milk to cities, said Mr. Parlane. It was giving the lie direct to the statement that the British farmer could not cooperate. Prior to the formation of this big co-operative organisation, comprising at present- over 2000 farmers, the milk dealers purchased their milk supplies direct from' the farmers individually, with the' result that with price-cutting tactics the- price of milk was very tmsatisfactorys But immediately the association was established and collective 'selling was adopted by the co-operating farmers much letter prices were reeeivcdi Although the association had been in operation at the time of' Mr* Parlane's visit" fbr' only eighteen months, it was distributing about 70,000 gallons of 1 milk- a: day, mainly to the city of* Glashut on occasions actually railing the milk to London, a distance of' 400 miTefc