RETURNED MILK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 13 April 1910, Page 5

RETURNED MILK

(To the Editor.)

Sir,— l noticed in last Saturday's is- 1 sue of the Star a paragraph in Okai- £ awa notes from "Our Own Correspond- c ent," with reference to returned milk, also that the milk rejected was sweet, ] and that owing to the grading points i having risen the milk would not be a good enough to make a first-grade ar- i ttcle, or words to that effect. A good < many farmers of "Our Own's" calibre appear to think that unless milk is sour or thick it should not be rejected at the factory. A clean soured milk would be much more preferable than milk not sour, yet having a dirty, unclean flavor. If the settler mentioned by "Our Own" has been dairying since the Waikura factory was started, he cannot have used much brain-work in his business, or he would have tound this out by this time. If farmers who use milking machines would spend more time in seeing that their machines are kept clean from day to day there would be no trouble about milk. The state that some farmers leave their machines in is something disgraceful. How can a man expect to get clean-flavored milk when it is coming into contact with filthy rubbers and tubing. I heard a cheesemaker say that on Piling the plug out of a vacuum tank (which beonged to a certain settler) the foul smell almost made him vomit. Can we wonder at milk being rejected when laving an odor like that m the system of a machine? As to the grading points having risen, this is not correct. They are the same now as they were ten years ago. Since the advent of the milking machines there has been far more trouble than previously about unclean flavors, simply because the operator does not understand how to clean machines, or he won't be shown. Let his stand over a stinking machineflavored curd all day, trying to work off the vacuum odors, and then he will probably cease to wonder why the millc was rejected. There are some farmers using machines who supply as good milk to the factories as that which is drawn by hand, because, they know how to keep them clean and are not frightened to use a bit of elbow .grease. Apologising, Mr Editor, for trespassing so much upon yoitr valuable sP?re.— I am € tc, CLEAN MACHINE.

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