DOYLESTON CREAMERY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8599, 28 September 1893, Page 2

DOYLESTON CREAMERY.

Seeing that more tbaa the usual amount of interest is being taken in the operations of the Central Dairy Company in the Ellesmere district, our correspondent paid the Doyleston creamery a visit on Friday morning last, and forwards the following remarks :—

At the inauguration of the Company the site chosen by the Directors for the Doyleston creamery, which is on the Drain road, about two miles from the Doyleston railway station, was the subject of much adverse criticism on the part of a number of local shareholders. The practical success of the creamery has now dispelled all doubt as to ita being a central and convenient aite. With only a few exceptions the principal butter and cheesemakers are now taking their milk into this creamery from the Leeston, Doyleston, Killinchy and Brookside districts. Another fact demonstrated is that the factory system pays better than the old hand system. A number of the suppliers have been nrizo winners at the Eflesmere and Metropolitan shows for years in both butter and cheese, and most of them have been regularly supplying the Christcliurch and other markets and getting high prices throughout the year for their produce. These people are now finding it to their advantage to send their milk to the factory, and in uuswer to enquiries made all are well satisfied with the results, in fact are quite jubilant over the improvementin their business. The creamery, which has been already fully described, is no»v in full working order. The buildings and plant are in beautiful condition, eery thing being spotlessly clean and bright, the machinery working smoothly and, although taxed to its full ' power, doing its work splendidly. The working and results of the Doylestcn Creamery reflect credit on the manager and engiueer, Mr R. J. Withell, who has won a name for himself already amongst the suppliers for his courtesy-and obliging manner. Last week there were thirty-aix milk suppliers, who furnished 816 gallons, ! which when separated produced seventyfive gallons of cream. The suppliers, ns already stated, come from all round Killinchy, Leeston. and Doyleston, from Hill's road and Bealey'e old homestead ; from Upper Killinchy, near the Dunsandel district, and a few from Brookside, while one supplier from Irwell and two from Lakeside have now commenced to deliver milk. The scene at the depot with between thirty and forty vehicles with their milk cans is a lively one, and gives one the impression that our farmers have at last woke up to the fact that the system is a good one. As showing the importance of the improvement in the dairy industry brought out by the factory system, we have only to consider the fact that if it were not for the present factory about thirty odd different brands and makes of butter would be put on the market either locally or for export. The milk from 340 cows owned by thirtysix farmers, giving an average of nearly 2|galls of milk per day, is a satisfactory record for a country creamery; especially is it satisfactory when it is considered that the present time is a very bad one for feed, and that no flush of milk could yet be expected. Next week a second separator is to be put in the creamery. The present separator cannot take the supply of milk without a stoppage for cleaning, which means loss of time on the part of the milk suppliers, who have to wait a long time now for their turn