NEW DAIRYING REGULATIONS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21577, 13 September 1935, Page 14

NEW DAIRYING REGULATIONS

BRANDING OF EXPORT | ) BUTTER OTRANSFER PERIOD ALTERED | tp»asa *«socjifioa tulboram., WELLINGTON, September 12. Issued under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, amending regulations relating to the manufacture and export of dairy produce are issued in the Gazette to. night. They become effective to-day. It is proposed to restrict the operations of a private dairy to the supply of milk or cream produced from cows depastured on the farm dairy, the average number of which in any month does not exceed 50. There are new requirements for milking machines, and for the arrangement and design of separator and engine-room on the farm dairy. It becomes an offence to include the addition of any skimmed or partiv skimmed milk to milk intended for delivery to any manufacturing dairy Without the consent of the cheese factory. A new clause governs the indication of grading day to inspectors. It is proposed to delete the provision in the principal regulations requiring known second grade milk to be followed up and graded daily until it is of the standard quality prescribed for first grade milk, and where milk is not being graded daily, payment for the whole of the supply during any part of the monthly testing period is to be made On the basis of grading only, instead of on the grades assigned, and the quantities to which the respective grade was assigned, as at present. The present seasonal period of restriction on the transfer of supply in the South Island is to commence on October 1 next, and end on June 30, 1936, and the free months in the South Island thereafter shall be July and August, instead of September and October, as at present. There are two new proposals governing the waxing of cheese. It is proposed. that there shall be a general prohibition against marking butter for export With words indicative of high quality, such as "choicest," "Choice," "superfine," or words of a similar import, to be branded on packages of butter intended for export in the form of pats if the grade assigned to such butter is that prescribed for finest. No butter in the form of pats of a lower grade than that of finest shall be exported In packages bearing any such words indicative of high quality. Four amending clauses relate to the specifications in respect of export butter boxes. •

Variations are made In the temperatures at which cheese must be held in grading stores.