BRITISH DAIRY FARMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 289, 6 December 1928, Page 8

BRITISH DAIRY FARMERS.

MAKING THEIR FLESH CREEP. MILK FROM NEW ZEALAND. (From Oar Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 25. The British Dairy Farmers' Association is nervous. And it has reason, for Lord Bledieloe has been addressing them at the dairy show on the "sweet uses" of machine made milk. It can now be made by a machine called an emulsifier from Argentine butter and New Zealand milk powder. "I do not know to what extent this movement is going to develop," he added, "but it is quite clear to all of us that if Argentine butter is produced at little more than half the cost of producing butter, or its equivalent, in raw milk In thie country, and if New Zealand milk powder can be produced at less cost than we can possibly produce milk, the ultimate danger of this fluid ae a competitor of our dairy farmers is very serious Indeed. "At least call it what it is; A product that comes from the combined effort of cows in the Argentine and New Zealand and a machine ought not to be retailed as dairy milk." Lord Bledieloe told them too, that "on several long-distance liners to-day there is quite a palatable substitute for milk being provided for the passengers under the name of milk. Also, I believe, in certain cities in this country the example is being copied." v One daily, in discussing the perilous position, asks what the British farmers shonld do, and eays: "It is unlikely that the 'emulsifier/ be it never so crafty, will be able to revive the touch of nature in products which have lost it, but if the chemists pronounce that the emulsified nutrition is not much less than that of natural milk, and if the palate does not reject what the chemists have approved, then the dairy farmers must make the best of an unwelcome but lawful competition. They may do two things. They may reasonably demand that the emulsifier should not pretend by label or advertisement, to be a cow, and they mav strive, by hook and crook, so to improve the product of their cows that, when ;, reaches the public, no synthetic milk wil" be in the same street with it."