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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 29 May 1922, Page 5

pressed out in the cheese presses. Hawera Dairy Company balance sheets /show the tests rising as a result of the improvements in suppliers' herds, the average test in 1914 being 3.76; 1920 3.95, and 1921 3.97. We get no more for our antumn made cheese A (high test milk) than for our spring made cheese (few test -nilk), and Tthat fact clearly proves that the extra fat m the cheesie is n,ot paid for; furthermore, it has been shown that'an expert cannot with certainty .tell the Hawera Dairy Company's part skim cheese from vhe full cream cheese. This question of the standardisation of milk for cheese making becomes very vital when considered in the light of its possible effect on the pay-out of a-dairy company. Last year the- HaWera- Company milk supply was approximately 40,000,0001b, average test 3.97; if this milk was standardised at 3.60 the skimmed butterfat would be 148,0001b, and allowing that the overrun would pay the expenses, this butterfat would make available the sum of £9250, taking the . butter at Is 3d per lb, which is equal to over £1 3s per cow for the 8000 cows -* supplying the factory. In conclusion, sir, let us not hinder, but help tho dairy industry by trying out a scheme which promises to be remunerative ro dairy farmers and others interested — I am, etc., " J. B. LAURENSON.