DAIRY CONFERENCE

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1926, Page 3

DAIRY CONFERENCE

NORTH AUCKLAND GATHERING. FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY. The thirteenth annual conference of North Auckland dairymen opened in Auckland on Wednesday morning-. The president of the National Dairy Association presided over an attendance of 4(! delegates. Mr W. M. Singleton, director of the Dairy Division, and Mr W. Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Control Board, were also present.

RESEARCH WORK NEEDED. In his opening remarks the chairman expressed the view that great changes were likely in connection with the industry. In a report Sir Frank Heath had stressed the necessity of a laboratory in which research work could he carried out. The leaders of the dairying industry had for many years been passing resolutions in connection with this matter, ns it was recognised that without a completely equipped laboratory and research station farmers could not get the results they should. They were now waiting for the selection of the site of the proposed Agricultural College, in connection with which it was suggested to attach an experimental station. This latter should go Conjointly with a dairy school, at which factory managers could have a satisfactory training.

FLAVOUR OF BUTTER,

During a visit he had made to Britain and the continent last year, Mr Morton said that he had made full inquiries intu matters pertaining to the dairying industry. He had found that in Denmark and other Continental countries a great deal of dairying research work was carried out, and it was recognised that practical work and scientific knowledge should go hand in hand. Because of its high flavour, many consumers preferred Danish butter to the New Zealand product, of which the complaint had been made that it was lacking in flavour. In the old days New Zealand butter vised to have a rich, nutty flavour, and he considered that an attempt should be made to bring back that standard. If this were done a greater demand for the Dominion’s .principal export would be created on the British market.

“If tho grading of cream were made compulsory,” concluded the sneaker, “it would be a good thing for the industrv. ”

REMITS REJECTED. Tw r o remits were discussed by tho conference, both being rejected. These w T ere:— Kaipara Dairy Company: That in fixing* advance payments for export butter a sliding scale, based on the New Zealand grade points, be, adopted in place of the proposed payments for the three classes, superfine, first and second grade. It is suggested that 90 points bo paid at a normal rate, .with an addition for each grade point above and a deduction for each point below the normal, and (2) that as export is by cwts., a rate per cwt. be adopted in/ preference to a rate per pound. Hikurangi Dairy Company: That it be a recommendation to the Dairy Produce Control Board that when export butter is being graded the brands of such butter be extinguished from view. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. At the conclusion of the meeting the officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows —Executive Committee: Messrs T. Bassett, F. McDonald, W. Grounds; auditor: Mr J. B. Gilmore-