DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 9

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

AAIENDING REGULATIONS.

IMPIIOVEAIENT IN QUALITY

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 12

Issued under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, amending regulations relating to the manufacture and export of dairy produce. are issued in the Gazette tu-mght and they became ellective to-day. It is proposed to restrict the operations of a private dairy to the supply of milk or cream produced from cows depastured on a. I arm the daily average number of which in any month does not exceed There are new requirements for milking machines and lor the arrangement and design of the separator and engine-room on a farm dairy, it becomes an offence to include the addition of any skimmed or partly skimmed milk to milk intended lor delivery to any manufacturing dairy without the consent of a cheese iacotry. A new clause governs the indication of grading day to inspectors. It is proposed to uelete the provision in the principal regulations requiring known second-grade milk to be followed up and graded daily until it is oi the standard of the quality prescribed for first grade unlit, and where milk is not being graded daily payment lor the wlioie of tho suppiy during any part of the monthly testing period is to be made on the basis of gradings only instead of on the grades assigned and the quantities to which the respective grade was assigned as at present. Hie present season period of restriction on the transfer of supply in the South Island is to commence oil October 1 next and end on June 30, 193 G, and the free months in the South Island thereafter shall be July and August instead of September and October as at present. There are two new proposals governing the waxing of cheese. It is proposed that the general prohibition against marking butter for export witii words indicative of high quality such as “choicest,” “choice,” “superfine,” or “superior,” he modified to permit such word or words of similar import to be branded on packages of butter intended for export in the form of pats if the grade assigned to such butter is that prescribed for finest. If, on being graded, the quality of the butter is not, in the opinion of the grader, of such standard, he shall decline to furnish particulars of the grade or issue a grader’s certificate until the words indicative of such high quality have to his satisfaction been removed from the package. No butter in the form of pats of a glade lower than that of finest shall be exported in packages hearing thereon or enclosed therewith, or attached thereto. any such words indicative of high quality. Four amending clauses relate to specifications in respect of export butter boxes. Variations are made in the temperatures at which cheese must be held in grading stores.