THE CRADING OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 2

THE CRADING OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

AN AUSTRALIAN STORY. 1 r Ilia' Sort; of obituary -on, the fast-expiring 3auso of the anti-gradmg-party in Australia,; the farmi writer ■ of: the-. '' Sydney i Morning, tiorald " sajs.— : ?" The, indisputable I successes achieved by the more. general i introduction of the system' of . giading butter, for-,export 3ompletoly . Bileticed tho • stay-behind ' section l which for many/years comprised the principal anti-graders in Australia. '(.This section - was composed of a fow: : clever leaders .whose interests ?.were\ better ■ served.: by; thogo-as-you-, please vpractices' whibhprevailed;:than'.they oould be .under a ' thoroughly' lioncatjuoperii' , misinpss-like manner ;of j traded supported-by? a' somewhat large follow-,' mgiof menvwho were by. natuWavcrse.to the : M®o.®fa6 '.of Anything new.- j - Theylead ers, iun?Mo at any tiino to discoverlogical reasonstort ho non-introduction' of gradjng.-.niade a mountainjof every . .small i molehill :which 50uld .be raised . through slight, imperfections always inevitable'-in tno .most nearly; jerfect' system. : -They:-twisted and, con tort edovery' statement tho. slightest reflcction.upongrading.and succetxled,- in"; thoroughly. frightening a i portion-'; of the); dairytarmorsi - .unable to shake-tlie merits; of "this; system—asexemplified : by. .the: splendid;'suc-| cesses of/New very;impudent assertions to establish grauing. J as !abogey'in the. minds r ;of their credulous-■ fbl-> lowers. \Yhile : thore was a ohanoo of holding back I; the.;, progress of; i properly advanced', methods in the. export: trade,:-tnesevleadersi. continually.,-rallied their followers;by,''means pf,;.;meetings iat'/which.;certain people'wero always primed ;to. say. exactly: what tney .were: told. One of; the, most:.amusing' results: of 1 this practice occurred: at ,ai:meetingrof:idola-' gatcli, fronvfcor^iperatiyo.-.-factories.-in;:Sussex ! Not-:, long-i beforb..; movement finally collapsed, a;writer:frad,been' instructed, to provide an article against-grad-ing, taking his information-from, expression's; ofjjopiiiion,. which be, .delivered that 1 day-iit- the.meeting. «■,Under-the;:inspiration-' of the .manager,-of the concern/most,winter- 1 ested,. dejegate,after delegate, arose and;, ; said that ho and everybody, connected with; tho; factory ..which ho ..represented i were.iopposedi to grading;! : After'a timo.tho^ressiiian, l firid-j ,iiig himself •; absolutely., at .a. Joss ;for matprialfor his article,-suggested to: the manager that; some r.easdns -iriignt. be given against-tho sy«,toin which .was, so roundly 'condemned .;, Dele-:, gates' were .then.U'sked to 'state why- they: were opposed to." grading, but,the discussibii. terminated'yery abruptly-bec'auso.every, man';, who rose suddenly learned that he had: been' carefully .primed with tho' assertion'that''the' system of' grading' was' a' horrible*-thing to' contomplatG, ; but, untortunatelv, ho. had: never learned why." ?:■