MILK AND ITS PRODUCTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3869, 5 November 1919, Page 2

MILK AND ITS PRODUCTS.

THE INJDUSTUY UP TO DATE. VISIT TO MAKIiNO'S FACTOIU'. Modern belief in the dairying industry of New Zcahuid has it that not a drop oi' milk that goes into the factory nowadays will be wasted. This is being demonstrated in J. Nathan and Co.'s factory at Makino, which has been or is being installed with plant for getting every last grain ot value out of the lacteal Jhiid. The factory draws its cream from 100 .suppliers fanning within a UU-milo radius or area, and including such rich country as Awahuri, I'ohangina, ToKorangi, Aorangi, and Colyton. The collecting of the cream keeps six motor waggons going, these modern vehicles superseding 26 Jiorses. There are 17 hands employed in the factory all the year round, and the plant is capable of putting through 800 tons of butter during the 10-nionths' season. It will surprise Feildihg folks to learn that the original portion of the factory is just inside the borough, and the new half of the extended building is outside the Orona County Council.

The policy of the factory (which is under the management of Mr C. Dunford) is to be self-contained. To this end it has a store room containing all spare parts for the machinery. The test room is a.v important and interesting with its array ol sample phials. The vats and churns, with the printing and packing sections, are all under one roof, making for convenience and efficiency. Under the paseturising system which prevails in the factory the cream is heated up to 185 cleg., and the plant used is designed along such efficient and economical lines (on the regenerative principle) that the incoming cream is heated by the outgoing cream, and the outgoing fluid is cooled by the incoming cream.

The plant has been brought right up to date, and includes three great made -in - New Zealand Anderson churns, each having a, capacity of 15001b of butter. What is churned this morning is packed this afternoon. The printer (or pat-ciitter) is an ingenious contrivance, invp.nted on the iMakino premises. It is a silent worker, a most decided improvement on the original noisy mechanism. The pats of butter now go straight from me printer to the packing-table, to b. , boxed ready for the market, in this corner of the factory there is cold storage Tor 800 boxes, and the produce is carried by rail to Wellington three times per week. Butter is also mechanically packed in bulk, in 001b boxes for export, the machine pa.eking two boxes to the minute.

All the plant throughout the premises is electrically driven, and the supply is obtained lroin the Eeilding municipal power house. In the engine room are four motors, with a total of up to GO break horse power, and in the boiler house are two iiO h.p. Galloway boilers.

A room is bet apart lor grinding st.lt, and also for testing each churning of butler for moisture, of which lo per cent, is allowed. TJio parchment used is prepared on the premises, being treated in a bath of lormaline and salt for 2-1 hours. This prevents mould-growth. The Govcrnniem officials keep a sharp watch upon. Hit moisture tests. A store room is well iilled with boxes, which are of Foilding manufacture. (Juite the most interesting feature is the drying room, in which dried buttermilk comes oil' the big hot rollers for all the world like a continuous sheet of silk. Taken in the hand, the sheet becomes powder, and very palatable to the taste. Alakino is producing; the first dried buttermilk powder made in New Zealand, and there is an excellent, prospect of placing it upon the market as a mixture in a.rtilicial foods for animals, such as calf meal, etc. Before being packed in large tins the powder goes through a mechanical sifter, coming out like the tmest Hour.

The very latest, additions to the buildings are being equipped with machinery for utilising yet another by-product ol milk, casein, which is obtained from skim milk and goes to the making of numerous articles, including imitation ivory for knile handles, and suchlike things in daily use. At Makino the factory is to manufacture casein paints and pastes. The paints will be used for distemper, ing, being applied as a spray. It will be supplied in >hali' a dozen tones, and casein" paint has already been used on the outside of roufh-cast buildinns in Fcikliiig. The casein paste includes a material with all the qualities of gloy and such like oflice paste. We have sampled it in our sub-editorial department, and found it equal to the best imported bottled paste that has come, inh> our olliee.

Altogether the Ma kino Factory is an interesting local industry, its programme is enterprising, and its future is undoubtedly coupled with the successful progress that pertains to the development of the utilitarian side of the dairy industry.

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