FARM INSTRUCTORS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 5

FARM INSTRUCTORS.

OPUNAKE, SUPPLIERS’ DISCUSSION. QUESTION HELP OVER. At the annual meeting of the Op-ur-ake Dairy Company the question o! employing a dairy farm instructor was brought UD by Mr. W# I/, Oil ambers, who moved that one be employed provided the cost was not too high. After some discussion Mir. Chambers withdrew- his motion for this year, intimating that ii-.f the m-ilk supply did not improve in quality lie- would 'bring it up again next year. Speaking on the subject, Mr. Chambers referred the good results secured by companies employing an instructor. He recalled that their manager had complained of the qualllity of some of the milk and stressed that -milk had either to- be accepted or rejected and that one bad supply could -s-poi-1 the- whole output. He understood from other companies that instuoto-ns worked very amicably with suppliers. ■ In seconding the motion. Air. fluyliss .said there would .be no need of an. instructor if all the suppliers sent in good milk. Mr. J. 8. Hickey, speaking against the proposal, said the manager -should send black bad milk. They could for .-CIS link up with the laboratory in Mawera and have- their testing -done there, and also an analysis when required, to discover where the trouble Jay- He- considered it <aro.se from, -wuppliens taking home whey and not washing cans; thoroughly. A supplier said he considered the reason was an- using the water from the factory, which was half cold when it reached -the- farms.

It was therefore agreed to hold ever action until next year.