GIVE IT A TRIAL!

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 February 1931, Page 6

GIVE IT A TRIAL!

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Undue arguments iiave been taking place in your paper over this ourning word “cheese.” Earmers and ractory managers, why jiot get down to business? As you all know, there are two leading points in keeping up tlie standard of our cheesemaking industry, namely, Competition and Criticism. Firstly, we have competition and, sad to say, our competitors are defeating us (look at the market prices). Next, criticism; how on earth do you expect your produce to improve in quality and defeat your competitors and ultimately get a rise in prices if you do not take notice of, and try out, suggestions made by critics who know and understand the whole business from start to finish There should not have been any need for Mrs Harrison to write what she did. Mr P. 0. Veale had already told you many of those points that would improve the product. Managers and directors of dairy companies, why not get to work and try our these suggestions? You cannot do any worse. It seems that because an outsider, or somebody that knows more than you do about a thing, tells you something you think that they are trying to take you down. You have Massey College. This institution has done and is doing an immense amount of good and could do a terrible lot more if the factories would only have more faith or interest in its work.

The New Zealand way of making clieddar cheese is a very slapdash method as compared with the old English style, but when it conies to making cheese in large quantities it is certainly more difficult, thus needing more care. Certainly the dairy awards are a great handicap. If a curd is not drained properly in the vats it (the cheese) must he open when it dries. There is barely time for it to drain.

One other point: the industry should be self-controlled, i.e., by a body of men who understand the making of cheese from A to Z and who can see that things, or rather wavs, for the better are put into force. To-day it is more or less the Government who runs the business and are afraid to make a move in case they get put out in the next election. That is really what it seems to boil down to. In conclusion, I would like to see these criticisms, or rather suggestions, made bv Mrs Harrison lie given a fair trial. If it proves to be no good it is easv enough to drop it and try something else. Something has to be done.

Thanking you for allowing me tin’s valuable space.—l am. etc., ONE READY TO GIVE THINGS A TRIAL.