DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 28 July 1933, Page 13

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

AMENDED REGULATIONS, i J GRADING OK MILK. UTiESS ASSOCIATION 'I'KI.EUILAU ■> WELLINGTON, July 27. Although it is not long since the general regulations were consolidated, the dairy industry has requested certain amendments by way of addition. Effect lias been given to these requests in amendments gazetted tonight. Special reference is made to the methods of payment as for grades of milk at cheese factories and creameries. The previous regulations required that milk delivered for the manufacture of cheese or butter should be graded daily by certain prescribed tests. The amending regulations afford more latitude and permit the grading to be done daily or a lesser number of times, but not less than three times during each testing period, which usually covers 10 days. Provision is made for alternative methods of payment where milk grading it. not carried out daily. Those suppliers who receive first grade for their milk on the day of the general grading may be paid as for first grade for all milk delivered during the 10-day testing period. Those suppliers who, on the day of the general grading, received second grade would have their milk graded by test on each succeeding day until a lirst grade is attained, and would receive payment accordingly. A further alternative method may be adopted. Where it is considered that frequent grading is too much of a task, the grading may be actually carried out the minimum of three times in the 10-day period, and the dairy companies may arrange with suppliers to accept payment I ba.sed on the proportion of first and second grades during the period. For instance, if a supplier received two first grades and one second grade in the 10-day period he would receive payment for two-thirds of the period for the butter-fat at the price for first grade and for one-third at the price for second grade. A fair representative sample of (night and morning milkings-as mixed is to be taken for grading. I Waxing of Cheese One of the amending regulations requires that the manager of a registered cheese factory shall record the temperature and humidity of the curing room daily. This is designed to prevent cracked rinds or excessive growth of mould on cheese. Much comment has been made about the waxing of cheese before export. This practice is. according to the new regulations, to be discontinued, excepting where the director of the dairy division is satisfied that an importer of cheese into the United Kingdom has made a request that .such cheese be waxed before export. CHEESE QUALITY. | i IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT TO HE MADE. ■l'i'.ESl 439CHUTIU.-I ir.l.f.OHMt.) WELLINGTON. July 27. j With the object of improving the J quality of cheese, ttie Dairy Division' of the Department of Agriculture will undertake an important experiment on a commercial scale during the coming season. It is intended, says the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. C. E. Macmillan, to take control of the operation of the Rukahia factory, near Hamilton, owned by the New Zealand' Dairy Company. It has an output of about 270 tons of cheese during a season. The existing staff will be supplemented by the necessary technical officers, and throughout the season manufacture will proceed under conditions which are considered desirable both in the factory and on the farms. Therefore, attention will be paid to milking conditions as well as the methods of manufacture. The extra expense involved in running the factory on demonstration lines is being shared by the Government, the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, and the Dairy Control Board, while the Jersey Breeders' Association has also offered to contribute £IOO. EASTERN MARKETS. The New Zealand "Dairyman" advocates greater attention than formerly being given to the Far Eastern markets as an outlet for New Zealand dairy produce. This work, it is held, is not for any particular dairy company but for the Dairy Produce Board. "For the first few years this class qf business will show a loss, and this loss should be borne by the industry as a whole. Sales of produce should be made by the board direct and if the net price realised is below London parity the factories supplying the board with the necessary produce must be compensated out of the board's funds. "In short, the board should take complete control of buying and selling and work the Eastern markets on strictly business lines. The lack of shipping facilities and the absence of adequate cool stores in some of the Eastern ports are a great handicap at present. But, notwithstanding these drawbacks, Australia, in 1031, exported £111,000.000 worth of produce 1o the East, which included 8.000.000 lb of bultcr and 4000 tons of condensed milk. Compare this with New Zealand's export of 450,0001b of butter in two years! "If the Eastern market presents difficulties it has also its advantages. In all the British ports of South China, India, Ceylon, etc., there is no duty on our produce. What is more, the price of silver—the currency of the East —has appreciated 20 per cent, during the last year or so, and therefore lias tremendously increased the purchasing power of these countries. There is every indication that silver will appreciate still further, and the time has never been more opportune for establishing trade connexions than the present. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Dairy Produce Board will direct its energies in this direction." LONDON QUOTATIONS. Tin- South Ulan.l Hairy li.ts received 111"' fi.Nov.iiiK market report from the Xmf Zealand Produce Association. Ltd.. London: Butter —Finn: 80s to SJs: Danish, DCs. Cheese —Kii-in; while .1»s, coloured .', 1 s to .j 2 s. Tin- New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Accncy Company, Ltd., lias received tin; following message from its London office, under date .Tulv 27: Butter—P-'b to Hl'.f. Market is Arm. Cheese—White 4 (Is, coloured jls to .VJ = . .Market is quiet. METALS MARKET. ■ J.'. iveil .Inly -7. 1.1.1U ji.in.)

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