"DON'T WANT A DAIRY SCHOOL."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1078, 17 March 1911, Page 8

"DON'T WANT A DAIRY SCHOOL."

', EXPERIMENTAL INSTITU'iIUJN < .■. ,y.; . FAVOURED. < It is expected by some that a good dealjvill be. heart! of the chivy school i question during the coming election con-, test in'-Paliuerstbn North. , ',". ; ; 'A dairying expert veumrkecl. to ..a Doiiikios reporter a few days ago: "We don't v.-aiit a dairy school. What wo want is an' experimental establishment. The :work:6f the dairy division of the Department of Agriculture is hampered fear- \ fully through lack of this. Take, as an t jristiaice, the tiuestion of moistccre in ■,« ■•BtltWr : . How much moisture should we' put in our export butter? No one knows, t When-, we were sending away butter f containing a certain ouantity of water, i feme neonle at this end advocated putting in more "moisture, and there is no doubt : wo were losing money on the dry article, s But : ho'w much more should we put in? i How'much could be incorporated and yet 1 do no harm to our butter? No one knows!" ( This .was only dne reason why we i needed an experimental establishment, ho 1 continued. There was plenty of work for t it,' and it would bo a boon to' tho State i Dairy Division. The cost would not be i great; the site, building, equipment, I litaff, and maintenance could be covered i by' a moderate sum. The need for the departure was pressing; there were many 1 things which should be reduced from con- i jectures to facts. New Zealand was not i finding out these things for herself, and '■she'should be: she had not even the s means of doing so. i