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Evening Post TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1914.

PRAISE FROM DAIRYING RIVALS

New Zealand dairy-farming in general, and the Director of Dairying (Mr. D. Cuddio) in particular, need not complain tho value of the advertisement given to them by the report of the Australian dairying delegation (Messrs. Warden, M'Kenzie, and Wilson) that visited New Zealand early this year. Summed up, the verdict of the visitors is that New Zealand is a better, dairying country than Australia, and better managed. "The truth of the .matter," they observe, " is that the New Zealand Dairy Commissioner and his predecessors have adopted much more direct and effective means for improving the quality of New Zealand butter than has ever been adopted in Australia, notwithstanding tho fact that they had a long gtart of us in natural conditions." The work of the dairying instructors, "added to the splendid natural advantages that the New Zealand enjoy, accounts for the wide difference that there is today in the quality of the New Zealand and Australian butters that find their way to the London market." As this is a declaration by Australians and business rivals, its disinterestedness is undeniable and its Boundness is not likely to bo disputed. Coming down to detail, the report summarises the factors making for New Zealand's superiority, and one of the first of them is the large proportion of butter made from whole milk' supply, notwithstanding the advance in recent years of home separation. " When the fact is taken into consideration," says tho report, "that 73 per cent, of the Dominion's export is made from whole milk supply, which should be all first grade, it can be readily understood why there is so little second grade butter exported from New Zealand to London." Moreover, " much of the 27 per cent, of home separator supply is gathered from farms close to the factories" In Australia— that land of distances— -a great proportion of the separated cream is conveyed over long mileages, and sometimes the delivery of it is not regular, so that the New South Wales factory has to work on a raw material generally inferior to the homeseparated article received by factories in Now Zealand. Thus this Dominion has an advantage not only in the whole milk supply, but also within the narrower scope of the home separation system. In passing, it should be stated that the visitors appear to be in error as to the actual percentages. Last year 34 (not 27) per cent, of the export of New Zealand butter was the product of home separation. And the proportion tends to increase. Comment is made on the high productivity of New Zealand dairying land. The greater the output per acre, the larger the number of factories. The more numerous the factories, the less the transport. And the less the transport, the better chance of the milk or icream being delivered in good condition. Mindful of their own environment, the Australians look on this feature with an admiring eye. Apropos, they might have quoted the striking fact, recorded in the Year-Book, that last year, within a radius of twenty miles of the township of Eltham, the value of the dairy produce manufactured was just on two millions sterling. This factor of reduced transport arising from the multiplicity of factories is thus summed yip in the report : "The land is so rich in most of the dairying districts that the supplies for factories, very much larger than the average of Australian factories, are drawn from a radius of three and four miles, hence the number of whole milk supply factories still in the Dominion. Even in the north of the North Island, where the home separator i 8 so much in vogue, there are 33 factories in that narrow neck of land north of Auckland, which shows that most of the farmers in that part cannot have very long distances to deliver their cream." To New Zea}and itself the information that there are 33 factories in the North Auckland Peninsula— the "Roadless North"— will come as something of a surprise. Only the other day dairying in North Auckland was in its infancy. With the advent of better roads, both there and elsewhere, the conditions of transport will undergo a further improvement that no doubt will be reflected in butter quality ', and this incidentally furnishes another argument for the Government's eiiergotio raade policy. Pursuing tho comparison with Australia, the' yijsitors

touch upon climate, and note, of course, New Zealand's advantage in rainfall. "At the timo of our vi&it, in February, the clover and English grasses were as green as they are in Australia in the middle of November."' High praise is given to the New Zealand Government instructors' educative work among factory managers, particularly with regard to pasteurisation: "It is almost incredible that nearly the whole of the factories in New Zealand have for the past four or five years been successfully carrying on pasteurisation, whilst in Australia few of ouv managers know how to do it, nor have we experts competent to instruct them." In fact, the report of these Australian visitors, representing the co-opera^ tive distributing companies of New South Wales and Victoria., is a remarkable tribute to New Zealand dairying. Bub much remAins to be done. Grading of milk and cream at factories and payment according to purity (instead of giving the same price for unclean milk as for pure) is one of the reforms still to be accomplished. Tt has Ml-. Cuddle's advocacy, and seems to be the only effective means of penalising, and ultimately eliminating, the careless supplier. <Vo are glad to note that Mr. Cuddle's proposals have been well received by the South Island Dairy Association and by other factors in this great industry.

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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 6

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Evening Post TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1914. PRAISE FROM DAIRYING RIVALS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 6

Evening Post TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1914. PRAISE FROM DAIRYING RIVALS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 6

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