BUTTER WITHOUT BORAX.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 May 1908, Page 3

BUTTER WITHOUT BORAX.

AN OPTIMISTIG MANAGER. PASTEURISATION WILL SAVE MONEY. The manager of a Dairy Factory not far from Wellington is ono of the first to make an oncouraging contribution to the dolicato subject of butter-making without preservative. Ho not only thinks this a practicable proposition, but goes further, and expresses a conviction that tho pasteurisation, which would naturally follow tho disuse of preservative, would lessen the cost of buttermaking. Progressive Factories. "My factory," ho said to-a Dominion representative, "will probably use no more preservative after the present stock is exhausted j.Kakaramca Factory (of which Mr. Dempster. is manager) is not using preservative, at all; and Stratford has not used any preservative for a good many year's." Pasteurising Saves Money. This managor then went on. to refer to pasteurising, and to suggest Teasons for results which .had not been quite satisfactory. "I believe," ho said, "that pasteurising should save mo"iiey. . You'ripen- the cream at a temperature to which it is cooled down by ordinary water without the aid of a freezer; when 'the cream is sufficiently ripe you cool it down, but oiily need very littlo help from the freezer; you churn at a higher, 'temperature, and don't need to freeze-the wash water so: low; and thus you shorten the day's work; On tho whole, I. beliove you'would save a great deal more in firewood, by the smaller use of freezing than you would lose in interest and in running the pasteurising plant. Tho overrun from , pasteurised cream,: when properly handled, should be greater than thejsrdinary overrun. Decreased overrun ;I' attribute to wrong temperature's. I beliovo. the pasteurisation of: cream, as well as skim'milk, should soon be made compulsory."' A Dairy Union View. .- Speaking on the same question,, a director .of the New Zealand. Dairy Union told our representative that in cases .in which their buyers had stipulated for butter without preservative,' the butter had always • reached London in good condition. A farmer who heard the statement suggested that the butter contained merely a reduced quantity of 'preservative, -but the director insisted' that it was absolutely free. The. milk was specially selected. "I am satisfied," he said, "that if wo had to send out all-our butter without preservative, we could do it.", By selecting your milk? "No.. But: special precautions, would, have to bo taken to use absolutely pure ■ water, and in other ways." .' ' Are your suppliers, any bettor than the .'suppliers- to other factories? "No.. ■ I don't,say that they, are.". , CHANGING THE BREEDS. A TALK WITH A SHEEP MAN. THE BEST SHEEP, FOR WAIRARAPA., It was stated some time ago in tho Wairarapa 'that there was a tendency on the part of many slieep farmers to revert back to-.-tho Lincoln in preference to- Romney breeds. .Our, Wairarapa ; correspondent waited ;jupou;;ft,;y/o]l 7 known^practical.,farmer in order to' seek sonio information on the subject. . ' " So] far as I ani aware," romarked tliis authority, "there is no truth in tho statement." There aforsonie farmers," however, wlio are always 'chopping"arid changing their breeds of sheep in response to the London market and the prevailing, fashion.,'-' These farmers aro -always '. chasing the unattainable, just as the Wairarapa players chased the .English . .full-back, 'Jackett : the other day: . When wool was low in price, they went in for mutton sheep; then when wool rose, the,same people plunged on-Lincolns; and now-that wool is .down again; we shall shortly see them again going in for Downs. No, I do not : think that there aro any Wairarapa- farmers who are 'going to, throwRoranoys over; for Lincolns, but' you may say that the Wairarapa believes' that tho district - is best adapted for sheep of the Romnoy-Lincoln type.' We can, therefore, assume that 'that is the breed which will be mostly gono in for in the future, so far .as the Valley is concerned. Of course, Ido'iiot by any means wish, to-imply that 110 other breed - cpn flourish in . the Wairarapa! The reverse is the case, but to grow mutton sheep one must either make a speciality of the'business or have plenty of first" class land. ' There are only a'fow people in the Wairarapa'who have made a success of fat lambs,-and that has .been mainly because they understood the conditions. You cannot beat a good roomy Romney-Lincoln owe with a first-class Southdown ram, if you wish to produce fat lambs of exceptional quality. ■ ■-'• ', '"There are somo'farmers in, tho South who go in for Border Leicester rams, and Leicostors are also seen in the Wairarapa; but,. generally speaking, tho Southdown is the fat lamb sire required for this district. Care should bo taken also that lie is a, good' sire. This is a most important point, which has been neglected, by many a sheep-breeder. The dearest sheep in the mm fair is tho cheapest on tho farm. It should bo noted that years, ago a number of Wairarapa farmers almost ruined -their flocks from a wool-producing point of view by going in largoly for Dovm rams, in order-to produce fat Mambs, and-these people may now be those who. are dealing with. Lincolna'in order to lengthen' tho staple." ' TURNIPY MILK. ITS INFLUENCE ON DAIRY PRODUCE. Year after year (says tho annual report, of -the- National Dairy Association of tho South Island) it is moro apparent that our export shipping season will havo to bo-ex-tended. Wo used only to export up to the end of March, but tho increased supplies both of butter and of cheese made in April and 'May now are far beyond what the local market can absorb for winter uso' till the new season opens. - Already in Otago and Southland, as well as from 1 the North Island, wo aro shipping April-May makes of cheese in fairly large quantities, and much of this cheese shows the effect of turnip-feeding most distinctly, and the landing'of such cheese on the London markot will cort'a'inly not enhance the factories' reputations, but must be harmful to them and to the New Zealand cheese export, trcdo generally. Canadian cheese-makers many 'years ago gavo up even attempting to make good checse from turnipy milk. T'liey found it impossible to . make good cheese, and found it did not pay to ship such cheese to Britain. Wo shall havo a similar experience, and, tlio sooner factories decide to refuse turnipy milk for cheese-making tho better. It is 110 good either for making export butter, but such milk can bo . dealt with at buttor factories for making biltter for immediate' use. Dairy farmers should at once sot about finding a winter feed for dairy cows other than, turnips, and probably will find such easily in 1 crops of Capo barley, which is good for producing milk, also in ensilage. Turnip-feading of dairy cows is rifo in Otago and Southland, and oven some North Island farmers have copied our bad example. A substitute must bo found. It is unthinkable that dairy cows must starve in '"in*/.,but for turnips; No dairy country in tho world outside of New Zealand uses turnips as the- winter feed for dairy cattle. It is true the evil of turnips might bo minimised by careful- and- timoly. feeding, and alternating with other, food, but it would bo safer and better for the Now Zealand dairy industry to do without turnips,, for they can bo done without.