CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 September 1925, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

tests and cheese yields

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —-Referring to vour report of the Ngaire Dairy Company’s annual meeting, in your issue of September 15, 1 notice that some of iny remarks criticising certain statements on the question of high yields, which were made at a recent factory meeting, have been wrongly reported, I would lie glad if you would publish my actual statement, which was as follows: That at a recent annual meeting of a Taranaki Dairy Company, n liose yield was low, and whose average test had been about 3.99, one of the speakers had stated that their manager had always been instructed to read tests on the highest scale. speaker said that in his opinion it was the usual practice of most laranaki factories, “and recognised 'by the Dairy Division,” to read the Rests down two points. He also stated that the yields of many Taranaki factories were impossible if the tests were read oorrcctlv. Following the statement another speaker said he would go one further than the previous speaker, and stated that, in his opinion, many Taranaki factories read the tests down four points. I pointed out that, such statements could only have been made through ignorance. I also stated that, in m\ opinion, 'the \great Imlnjority of our factory managers were honest, conscientious men, doing their level best to rrive satisfaction to their suppliers, and that I was also certain that the Dairy Division would not countenance the deliberate reading down of tests. .Most of the talk of reading down tests was sheer nonsense. This particular factory actually passed a resolution instructing the manager in future to read their tests down two points, which action I characterised as ignorance and folly. 1 finally stated that the high yields were easily obtained. But to get the high yield and keep up the grade was a very different matter. —I am, etc., H. C. TAYLOR, Chairman Ngaire Dairy Co. Ng|aere.