HOME SEPARATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1153, 14 June 1911, Page 10

HOME SEPARATION.

; IS WORKING IN THE WAIKATO. Allen 8011, ivho presided at tho ! annual dinner of suppliers of the Waikato i . Co-operative 'Dairy Company, .spoke at length on the subject of pasteurisation, f- A couple of years ago, lie said, when they started to organise a company for tho pur- • pose of going into home separation, they were : met with great antagonism. They j 1 had started under, the most unfavourable conditions, but were ablo to'turn, out 130 | tons of butter; but owing to the tremenj dons .change in public opinion they had i not only doubled their output, but inj creased it by 300 per cent. Such a result f was attained under the system which they | had been told was going to wreck the ; dairy, industry; instead of wrecking it ; they' found that the prices obtained under f the home separation system had equalled i. those of any other company in New Zea- • land. They had been told that the butter j . made under home separation had to be j sold at a reduced price in order to get rid of it. . Their output this year had ; been between 139 and 160 tons, which was ; an indication of the great change in pub--1 lie opinion, and he was pretty, safe in prognosticating that next:year they would , ;turn out 800 tons. The "National Dairy 'Association, the largest concern in New Zealand, working under the creamery . system, hod averaged for the season for ( their butter, in London 106s. 10 4-sd„ while ;tho Waikato Company, working imder the ; hiew system, had averaged for the season ; 106s. lOld. As to quality, ho read a letter | 1 from their London agents,, stating that .. tit present there was no difference in the j two butters; their qualities and values were so interwoven that it was impossible to separate them. The highest price was ; made from factory skimmed cream, and | the lowest price also, while home ! separated butter caino in between the two. They could not class them separately, as r .neither was bettor than the other. Rc- • ferring to home separated methods, they j" added :—"We have not had ono single box • .throughout the season reported übon as .fishy."