DAIRY INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 6

DAIRY INDUSTRY

PRESENT DEVELOPMENT

RESEARCH INSTITUTE'S

WORK

(From "The Post's" Special Reporter.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. The opinion that the dairy industry I had reached a state of development in which it must, by itself and at its [ own expense work out its own destiny was expressed by Professor W. Riddet, ! Director of the Dairy Research Institute, in the course of an address on the work of the institute, given to the National Dairy Conference yesterday. "The Dairy Researbh Institute continues 'to serve the Dominion dairy industry by applying the latest ad- : vances in science to the practice of cheese and butter making," said Professor Riddet. "Through the combined efforts of worke. : in the laboratories and in the experimental dairy factory, assisted as. occasion demands by the Dairy Division, commercial factories and various other technical organisations, such as the Plant Research Station and the Soil Survey, the institute is making progress.which could not be achieved without adequate organisation and facilities. I have pointed out on other occasions that, in our present large-scale manufacturing organisations and with the high standard of <;fnciency obtaining in our best, factories, it is not possible easily to adapt advances made in other countries to our local needs. Our industry has reached a state of de- ', '.opment in which we must by ourselves and at our own expense work out our own destinies. *As others have pointed out, the average standard of quality of our products excels that of most exporting countries, but not only must we raise the standard of all to that level, but strive also continually to raise the standard of the best, always, of course, within the limits of economic production and manufacture. , We must proceed even further. We must continually aim at widening the variety of products, in order that consumption of milk in : its many forms may be kept as far as possible ahead of production, and in order also that substitutional. pro- ' ducts from other industries may not • capture our markets.. Such are the i aims and work of the Research Institute." The detailed results of all investigations were too numerous and in some 1 cases too highly technical .to deal • with in the course of his address, said . Professor Riddet. He accordingly con- • fined himself to a few aspects of the work and left others to be dealt with 1 by question and answer. Professor Riddet dealt with the investigations of the institute into cheese 1 and butter making. He said that , with respect to butter the investiga- '. tions of the institute had been somewhat less extensive than those on ' cheese, because cheese troubles I claimed priority of investigation. Nevertheless, investigations of butter problems had been consistently pur- | sued for the past four seasons, and ! some quite definite results had been ', obtained. The greatest number of ', experiments had been concerned with factors affecting; the flavour of butter ', The most outstanding result over a , period of years was the confirmation :of the fact that the best quality .of I standard export butter could be made ', only from the,freshest cream. With respect to the flavour of butter [ and the quality of butter, in general ; it might be said that the future line ; of improvement lay not so much in I the modification of- existing factory , methods, but—just as in the case of ; cheesemaklng—looking into the funda- [ mental nature of the butterfat. A most . interesting feature of the investigation ' during the past year was that pastures either riot manured or manured ' only very lightly, and productive of '; a relatively small amount of butterfa per acre, - produced the strongest flavours of all, towards the end of October and early in November. Those ' pastures produced no apparently '. strong taints in the early spring , months, but at this time there was \ practically no food on such farms. BREAD AND WATER . _—.... ♦ • ! PRISONER'S PUNISHMENT ; A PLANNED ESCAPE : (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 1 NAPIER, This Day. Found by goal officials standing behind his cell door armed with a piece of wood, Ronald Scott Barker, aged 22, was charged today with attempting to escape from the Napier Gaol. It was shown that he had broken : up his bed and placed portion of an upright in the corner with a blanket over it, giving the appearance that he was : standing in the corner. He was waiting : behind the door with a piece of wood from the bed in his hand with which, ! the police alleged, he intended to assault the warder. ; The Magistrate, Mr. Miller, placed Barker on a six-day diet of bread and water. . , OHEIOmWE EAST PROSPECTS NOT ! ENCOURAGING ■ (From "The Post's" Special Reporter.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. "Considerable interest has been taken by some sections of the public in the possibility of diverting some of our butter to the manufacture 01 ghee and in the development of trade with Eastern countries in this product, ! said Professor W. Riddet in ian address ' to the National Dairy Conference yes- " terday. Ghee : was pure., butterfat, " with a characteristic colour, texture, » and flavour, and: thereby differed ' materially front butter, .he. said. The : product was widely used throughout I India and the East £f made chiefly from the milk fat of the. Indian buffalo and r COW. ' ■ • 1 • That fat,differed from that of cows . in New Zealand in its whiter colour ' arid firmer consistency. The: problem . confronting the New.Zealand.manufacturer was the production of: a fat with . a typical'flavour and.texture. The ! flavour was. radically different from • wfcat.jthey: w : ere striving for in the i production of finest-grade'butter. Ini vestigations showed that there was , considerable difficulty in obtaining the .. desirable flavour, .but the most recent ! results were quite hopeful. Trade prospects did not appear to be encouraging. There.was no mdi- ' cation of a big demand for ghee of ! high price. Nevertheless the prospects of building up a trade in the?product ! should not be overlooked in the event ■ of it becoming necessary to dispose of . surplus butter, or butter prices dropping to an abnormally low level. There was always the possibility of slowly developing a trade for a really high-quality product amongst those who did not make price a first consideration. .His Excellency' the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Galway, has accepted the office oil Dominion patron of The Boys' Brigade in New Zealand,