DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 73, 10 March 1913, Page 6

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

THE WEAK SPOT

STRINGENT MEASURES URGED. Dunedin. March 10. Mr. Scott, secetary cf the South Island Dairy Association, thinks a campaign should be started in Dunedin with the object of removing the present weak spot in the dairying industry, namely, the quality of the milk supply. The Agricultural Department, if it is to do any good, will have to take more stringent measures with factories and dairymen. All the factories should adopt the North Island plan of employing a Government official, paid for by the factories, whose duty it is to go round and inspect machines, premises and utensils. Large factories, like Edendale, Mataura, and Stirling, could each fully employ such an expert. The small factories should be group-i ed for a similar purpose. The inferior ; quality of the butter exported is traceable to home separation. Mr. Bolt, of the Taieri and Peninsula Co., has been very outspoken in this connecticn, and the opinions he and other trading dairymen have voiced have been proved up to the hilt. The South Island is not so largely interested in butter as in cheese. The Taieri-Pen insula. Canterbury Central, Tai Tapu, Sefton, and Ashburton makes, well known for excellence of quality, are mostly consumed within the Dominion, but they are obliged", as the result of the heavy demand, to take in home separated cream. They, however, make a distinct hand butter, and do not class it with best grades.