DAIRYMEN'S POINTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 2

DAIRYMEN'S POINTS.

■. \ VALUE OF CLEANLINESS. COOL MILK SAVES MONEY. • " ' What is a good point for dairymen to gfli on, now that the season' has commenced? asked our Wairarapa correspondent of, Mr. M. T. West, the manager of the Dalefield Cheese Factory. "Clean hands and udders," was the reply. " The foundation of good milk is clean milk, ing, which can only be obtained' by clean hands from clean udders. Dairy - inspectors are no doubt doing a certain amount of good in advocating clcan milking sheds, but their benefit is neutralised, by anyono who milks his -dirly-uddered cows with dirty hands."' . Anything else P • "Yes, cool the milk.. .The farmer now« adays cannot compete in the market if the preparation of his article is not first-class. It is no' use aerating'without cooling. If farmers were only fully aware of the loss they sustain through sending over-ripe milk to the factory they would all have coolers to-morrow. I once made a calculation during a hot summer in a big seven-vat factory which I was managing.' I found that through the. over-ripe state of the milk which was being received it took 10Jlb. : instead of 101b. of milk'to make a pound'of cheese. At this rate the loss . during _ the season would have been £500, a sura quite sufficient to supply coolers • to all the dairy farmer? of that particular factory. - There is no doubt that the farmer loses more money through over-ripe milk, than . through tho vagaries of : the London market.