DAIRY MATTERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 8

DAIRY MATTERS.

(From a Correspondent.) j A meetar^y t0 a . circular from fche Nata^maj Dairy Asociaition was lieid in the Attii&naeum, Eltham, on Tuesday, 10th inst. : Mr Grane, of Normanby, who was voted to the chair^ said that as so many dele- | gates were pres&nt, from the tiMrty-tliree dairy ■companies who were shareholders in the Box Company, he thought tJhey should . take the opportunity to talk over iih® dif- | ferenit points raised in this circular. The first was the pasteurisation of 6kim milk j [ and he invited expressions of opinion on that point. j A short discussion followed. It was ' generally agreed that each year the qual~. ity of 4-he calves reared was improving, and ( the present time when calvos were so I low in price was thought inopportune <x> incur extra expense for the skim milk, especially as any profitable result was exceedingly doubtful. [ The <nexfc point in the oiKuilax was "independent testing of milk." The Chair- " main said he took it for granted that this ■, meant testing by an expert .appointed by ; the Government. i This also excited adverse criticism. It was thought that the present system of the factory manager doing the testing in his spare time whilst looking round and supervising the work of tin© factory was the best, and the least cost to the dairy company. The opinion was also express- t ed that the manager was just as likely to j do- the testing in am ihonest and capable j manner as a Government expert, and he ; would be easier sacked if he proved untrustworthy than the Government man would. (Hear, .hear.) The Chairman *cad out "Saltless Butter" as the> next subject for discussion, and said that as sending Home butter uiisalted seemed playing into the hands of the fak■eis this matter required careful consider- : afcion. J Mr Marx, Mangatoki, said that there were prevalent mistaken views on. this subject. TheTe was a, distinct demand for unsalted butter and they ought to take advantage of it. It was a matter of 1 business, <a matter of profit. The demand was there, and if they did not avail themselves of the opportunity to supply j it a* a handsome profit, them tine foreign pxodnoer would do so. Mr Dingle, Stratford, said it was. not a matter for eentinteafc at all. He had ' been assured that tihis butter went straight I into the hands of the consumer, and if some of it went to the faker were they on that account to stop supplying tne legitimate purchaser? Mr Murray, Eltham, said that in the /part of the Old Country that he had been brought up in Baltless butter was . always consumed! by those who cotiid afford to buy it. 1 Mr Joll, Okaiawa, 6aid that many yeans ' ago a small shipment had beian, sent Home 1 as an experimeait to see ii- saitless butter j •would keep on such a long voyage. It ! was used in the best London restaurants, j and was knowji as sweet butter. Fox the last five or six yeans he had sent Home the half of his butter nnsaited. And for the matter of that if he had the machinery and appliances and it paid to do so he would send Home faked butter and seill it on its merits as a mixture. M.r Burgess, Warea, said they were sending Home the whole of their butter this year unsalted. They had found it a distinct advantage in everyway. They got a higher price, and they had a larger overrun, because the ealtless butter carried more moisture. Mr Marx explained that salt drained ■the moisture out of the butter, whereas ! unsalted butter carried far more moisture without showing it. 1 Mr Joll stated that ordinary English but- ' ter carried 18 per cent, moisture and in New Zealand most factories oirly had 10 or 12 per cent. At Home the demand was for a butter that would spread easily on bread, and outs was too dry ifc would not spread, and so we weue 'not catering to suit the market. We lost in that way and also lost in the* weight of our butter through lack of water in it Mr Morton, Mangere, said that five ' years ago it was quite common to see in I the graders' notes "excessive moisture " : ! and a point or two was knocked off on that ■ I account,, but now though it was a point eibte into the butter, and it realty £*. nedfar more than formerly, yet the grader never complained. , «,?? m€^S t&rminated with a vote of tnanks to the chairman. 1