IMPROVED DAIRYING CONDITIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 14

IMPROVED DAIRYING CONDITIONS

Reporting to the. Manawatu and West Coast Dairy Factories Association, Mr J. W. Smith dairy instructor at Palmerston North, stated that there was a very noticeable improve. ment in the cleanliness of dairy facilities on farms, particularly where hand milking is in vogue. . ; “In addition to the work or liistruction, much valuable advice has been tendered to dairymen. upon the construction and re-erection of jnilking sheds, and plants, while over 250 milking machine installations have been passed by our officers. No hardship or unnecessary outlay of expenditure has been incurred by dairymen in this district with respect to the enforcement of anv of the regulations.

“It is interesting to learn that when the block system of farm dairy instruction commenced operations in Manawatu in the 1925-28 season the cost per pound of butter-fat for the service worked out at .0236 of a penny. The payment , for the 1930-31 season being based upon the 1929-30 figures, works out at. .0170 of a penny per pound of butter-fat,, or a decrease of 24.1 per cent in the cost per pound of butter-fat since 1925-26. In consequence.of the 10 per cent reduction in oil Government officers’ salaries as Prom April J. the services for the 1931-32 season will he further reduced to dairy companies.”