PAYMENTS FOR MILK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 7 April 1934, Page 11

PAYMENTS FOR MILK

Manufacture of Cheese TARANAKI FACTORY TRIAL In several articles which have appeared in these columns recently it has been contended that the system of paying for milk for cheese-mak-ing on a butter-fat basis was inequitable, because the lower-testing milks gave a higher return per pound of butterfat when made into cheese The following report, issued by the Cardiff Co-operative Dairy Co., Taranaki, on experiments carried out with different fat-testing milks for cheese-mak-ing, provides conclusive evidence on this point.

The December returns show that the milk testing 3.4 p.c. fat gave a 17 p.c. greater yield of cheese per pound of butter-fat than did the milk testing 4.8 p.c. A'et on the present system i.e., solely on a butter-fat basis, both these milks are paid for at the same rate per pound of fat

DECEMBER, 1933. lbs. milk Test lbs. fat 1. Low 7590 3.4 258 2. Medium 7590 4.4 333.96 3. High 7590 4.8 364 lbs. Cheese per Cheese Yield 1000 lb. Fat 1. Low 719 2.78 278 2. Medium 833 2.49 249 3. High ... 865 2.37 237 JANUARY, 1934. lbs. milk Test lbs. fat 4. Low 7910 3.6 284.76 5. Medium 7910 4.2 332.22 6. High ... 7910 5.0 395.50 lbs. Cheese per Cheese Yield 1000 lb. Fat 4. Low 746 2.61 261 5. Medium 827 2.48 248 6. High ... 940 2.37 237