DIFFERENTIAL PAYMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 August 1928, Page 5

DIFFERENTIAL PAYMENTS.

, WHENUAKURA EXPERIMENT. REPORT OF RESEARCH CHEMIST “During last -season the Whenuakura Dairy Company adopted a system of differential payments for milk for cheesemaking, based .lipon the results of regular microscopic grading of the milk at the Federation laboratory,” reported Air. P. 0. Veale, research chemist, to the Taranaki Federation to-day, “This innovation, the-, first of its kind in New Zealand,- will be made the subject of a special bulletin shortly, and accordingly. I will report very little at- present. Suffice' it to say that there was a- remarkable improvement effected in the- quality-of the milk received at the f actories, and a- marked rise in the- yield of cheeseper lb of -butter-fat, and in the- seasonal position of the factory at the grading port. The factory routine throughout the whole season was characterised by remarkable ease and uniformity of working, a- considerably reduced requirement in starter, and atotal absence of 11011-acid and __ other cheesemaker’s troubles. This is esjiec-i----all y notable in view of the fact- that for a number of years Whenuakura had -suffered seriously from chronic non-acid, -troub-lc at certain -seasons of tire- year. “The Pura-pura branch of the Whenuakura Company, manufacturing 'Casein, secured the highest average grading points of -all factories supplying curd to the New Zealand Casein Company at Aramoho, and their product was characterised by -a remarkable uniformity. [Moreover, the Purapura branch held the distinction of having supplied up to March of this year the highest quality Casein curd ever received during a. 10-day period. This performance, however, was equalled bv another company at a later period of the season, when conditions were undoubtedly easier. These facts are definite proof of the benefits to lie' derived by the adoption of milk grading with differential payments, and it is to he hoped that, by a voluntary extension of the system amongst its own members, the Federation wi l ! again give the lead as it -has done in the past to the whole of the New Zealand dairy industry. Personally. I shall welcome: the decision of any factory to follow the lead of the W-henua-kura Company.”