FARMERS' UNION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 August 1923, Page 3

FARMERS' UNION.

FRASER, ROAD BRANCH

: (From Our Own Correspondent.^ The usual monthly meeting was held last Tuesday and was addressed by Mr. R. Wilson, Government Dairy Inspector^ of Havvera. There was a representative attendance, and the feeling of the meeting was hit off in an expression used by the chairman, Mr. A. L. Campbell. He said: "There have been mentioned things that I had never heard of before." Mr. Wilson's chatty way of delivering himself induced a good discussion. His main points may be summed up as follow: ( ) The manufacture of cheese and butter begins on the farm and, being foodstuffs, clean milk is essential. (2) The rancid taste arises from dirty machines, and not from feed. (8) Never wash the teats with the fore milk. (4) Use boiling ] water, heated in your own copper, for j cleansing the milking machines. (5) : Hand milkers could install a shoot Tvith | advantage, so as to quickly cool the ! milk. This prevents the bacteria which , develop at blood heat, from ever get- ! ting a start. Mr. Wilson showed that it was possible for just one of these bacteria to develop into seven millions in twenty-four hours. As one bacteria grows to full size in twenty minutes, then producing two duplicates of itself by simply breaking itself into two, to be followed by four in another twenty minutes,-then by eight at the end of an hour, the number can be figured out by the mathematically inclined. It reminds one of the horse that was shod at the price of nothing for the first nail, a halfpenny for the second and a penny for the third. .

. The meeting closed' down with the discussion on covered milk stands and one or two dippers taken, at the-factory on wet mornings, with the position of "as you were."

The meeting accorded a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Wilson. We wish it to be known that on August 28 Mr R-. B. Wood, M.R.0.V.5., is coming to Fraser Road.