HOME SEPARATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1206, 15 August 1911, Page 8

HOME SEPARATION.

I BOTH SIDES OF THE CASE.' ' | Spanking at the annual conference of Mil' South Island Dairy Association, Jlr. I). C'uddie, Dairy Commissioner, hail some" thing lo say about home reparation: Referring to his remarks, a Taranaki writer says he did not go so far a.s to completely condemn home separation, allho;:gh he said that if it became general throughout New Zealand he was satisfied Hiat our butter would go down in quality. "He had to admit," continues the writer, "that there wero solno districts where no other form of dairying could lie carried on; also that the system was not faulty in itself, though the methods employed in carrying it. out were very much so. Sometimes flic cream was allowed to remain on the farms for three or four days, and naturally when it arrived at the factory is was very sour. That, of course, is a trouble which is easily remedied, arid some much stronger argument must be adduced before the admitted advantages of home separation can be relinquished. - It is impossible, Mr. C'uddie says, to get everyone to take as much care with their milk and cream as they should. That is so, but it applies to tlio factory system with almost as much force. One careless niiik supplier may lower the quality of a factory's output," and there is therefore nsed for constant watchfulness on the part of managers and directors of factories. -Whether the difficulty in. this direction would be greater with cream than with milk we cannot say, but there is so much to be gained by'home separation that it must be shown that the results of individual carelessness would be more serious under that system than uurier the present before the idea is given up. There is no apparent reason why cream should not ba handled carefully on the- farm, and delivered daily at the factory; while a factory manager may Surely reject cream that is 'off' with as little or even less compunction than ho ivonld milk in similar condition. We arc* not advocating the home separation system, but at. the same time we are not prepared to accept Mr. Cuddie's remarks at Dunedin as final nun conclusive on the subject.' l