More Stringent Regulations

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1933, Page 8

More Stringent Regulations

CONTROL OF DAIRY INDUSTRY DIFFERENTIAL PAYMENTS FOR MILK WELLINGTON, Last Night. Regulations of importance to-, the dairying industry are published in the G&zette. Considerably more control is to be exercised in future over the manufacture and export of dairy produce as a result of which it is hoped to bring about an improvement in the quality particularly in regard to cheese. In framing the regulations the Government has taken into consideration the recommendations of the recent Conference in Wellington representing all sectios of the dairying industry. With one exception all the recommendations are embodied in the regulations. The conference proposed that steps be taken to provide for the licensing of factory managers, but the Factory Managers’ Association is to be given the opportunity to express its views concerning the lines upon which these regulations should be framed before any action is taken in this direction.

The regulation* have been me under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, and opportunity hay also been taken to consolidate the existing regulations as amended from time to time. Briefly, the most important changes are:— The establishment of milk-grading with differential payments.

Restricting the transfer of supply from one factory to another during the manufacturing season. Provision for persons grading milk to be certified.

Accepting of delivery of milk for cheese-making to be refused if delivered after 9 a.m. on the day of delivery. 1 Specifications for butter boxes are prescribed in detail. The dairying conference recommended that milk on dairy farms should be cooled to a temperature not exceeding G 5 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 70 as at present, and provision is made for this.

At present all milk or cream must be protected against the' entry of any bird, rodent or other animal, and the scope of this regulation has been extended to apply to all dairy apparatus in the manufacturing dairy into which milk or cream is passed. In view of the provision for differential payments in respect to several grades of milk the basis on which grading is to be carried out has been set out with more particularity. At present the milk supplied to cheese factories is graded into first or second grade, but provision has been made permitting the owners of factories to grade it into an additional grade of finest. Provision for differential payments becomes effective on August 1. In the case of cheese factories the rate is to be at least 4d per lb. of butterfat less for second grade than for first grade milk. Owners of cheese factories may pay a higher rate for finest than the rate paid for first grade milk. In the case of creameries and skimming stations the rate for finest shall be at least id per lb. of butterfat more than that paid for first grade, and at least a penny per lb. of butterfat less for second grade. , Provision is made for the regulation of the supply of milk or cream to creameries, skimming stations and cheese factories. Once milk or cream from any dairy farm is received by the owner of manufacturing dairy during the manufacturing season no other owner may receive milk or cream from that dairy farm during the season. There are six specified eases in which the provision would not apply. At present every grading store in which cheese is placed must be maintained at a temperature of not less than 50 degrees nor more than 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature at which cheese , must be maintained is now varied according to the period during Avhich it is held in store. Between August 1 and November’' 30 the temperature must not be less than 52 degrees nor more than 54; between December 1 and February 28, not less than 47 nor more than 49; between March. 1 and July 31 nbt less than 42 nor more than 44. Experience has thgt one range of temperature throughout the export season is unsatisfactory. The conference recommended that the minimum points for first grade cheese be raised from 90 to 91 points. There is a regulation giving effect to the recommendation.

Provision is made that responsibility for the correct stamping of graded packages should be placed on the owner of the grading store whose employees perform this service. Provision is also made for owners of cheese factories and creameries to furnish a monthly return showing the total pounds of butterfat credited to suppliers and manufactured into butter or cheese, the total pounds of , butterfat o v r cheese manufactured, and the yield in pounds of butter or cheese manufactured per pound of butterfat credited to suppliers. _ •