The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1901. INSPECTION OF DAIRIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 166, 16 January 1901, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Dail y. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1901. INSPECTION OF DAIRIES.

o The Regulations for the Inspection of dairies, published in the Gazette of the 10th instant, and reproduced in this journal, are not likely to be willingly accepted by dairymen or small farmers, who look upon their milch cows as valuable contributors to their incomes. We have already heard complaints both deep and bitter from some, while others are inclined to cast ridicule on many of the provisions of the regulations which are, with what justice we are not prepared to say, described as absolutely silly. Be that as it may, these regulations, whether wise or foolish, will have to be obeyed, and it will depend entirely on the dairy farmers themselves whether pleasantness or unpleasantness arises. Our advice is this:— Let the suppliers of every butter and cheese factory meet with all convenient despatch to discuss the regulations, study them clause by clause, and consider them from every I standpoint, and afterwards forward the results of their deliberations to the head of the Department, and we assert wifch the most perfect confidence that they will receive both courteous and careful consideration. The Government does not desire to smother fche dairy industry, rpr do we believe for one moment that the regulations now under consideration were framed solely with the view cf creating billets for. inspectors, as has been suggested by an angry correspondent. Dairy farmers mus j aiirely know that although a few years ago they were numerically weak, and therefore without influence, but now their numbers are great, and that they are a power in the land which the Minister must reckon with. There is an enormous amount of money invested in the dairy industry which must nofc be jeopardised under any circumstances whatever, while the small dairymen, whose whole capital is invested in a few cows, has claims for considerations which the Government dare not ignore. Our advice, then, is for the dairy farmers, great and small, to meet and combin t so that their interests may be protected, and at the same time the head oi the Department be given the benefit of their superior expert knowledge gained from practical experience. Mutual concessions, will make the new system work smoothly and profitably, wifch Advantage to the colony at large.