TEST AND CHEESE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 May 1925, Page 5

TEST AND CHEESE.

(To til© Editor). Sir, —I noticed in a .letter to your paper re those interesting articles on cheese, etc., by Mr. Buckeridge and others, a suggestion was given that perhaps the general managers of our big companies would give us some idea of their views. .It seems they must have some reason. Either they do not know or cannot tel) anything, or they do know and won’t tell us. Or, again, perhaps some directors object to them giving any information. But it seems to me very necessary to find out whether we are on the right lines, as, in South Taranaki, with our rich and closely settled land and good I'oads, cheese as a rule must come out on top, and butter in the back country and bad roads will hold its own. iNow, no miller would buy wheat that milled, saj, forty lbs. of flour to the bushel at the sqme price as wheat doing, say, thirty-five, and the same applies to milk. Speaking without knowledge, it seems to me that for the sake or information it might be possible to put, say, 4.6 to 5.0 in one vat and in another the low-testing milk, say, 3.6 to 3.8, and in yet another mixed milks. That would be the real test and'uneducated men like myself would understand, as, though no doubt, the big tables of figures are quite in order and correct, I am quite safe in sayifig that not half our farmers understand them. But they would quite understand if one vat made £lO worth of cheese and another £8 worth. My idea is that one ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory. —I am etc., OLI> FABMEii. / Manaia.