Farmers Dissatisfied With Cream Grading

Northern Advocate, 19 August 1938, Page 2

Farmers Dissatisfied With Cream Grading

v The question of grading of cream : supplied to dairy factories early in j j the season was ventilated at the an- j £ mial meeting of shareholders of the | | Waipu Co-op. Dairy Company, Ltd., j yesterday. ! “Why is no cream graded ‘super-! % fine’ early in the season when col- j lection is being made only two or j three, times a week?" asked Mr D. J. | McLeod, who considered that a farmer supplying good cream at this | time of the year was being penalised, v The chairman remarked that this ~ point was provoking widespread discussion at all dairy company. meet- % ings this year. ? An explanation was given by the v factory manager, Mr C. O. Langhorne. !‘t who said that the slate of milk fol■j t lowing calving at this time of the year /; * was such that practically no super- : % fine grading could be allowed. This * applied to much cream that was otherwise of best quality, and thus it ? was that superfine grading could - rarely be given. « Dissatisfaction with the grading of ■i, cream as carried out at the factory was also expressed by Mr R. McAulcy. who stated that on one occasion he had forwarded the same day's cream in two separate cans, and there had *1 been a difference of throe points in r the grading of the two cans. V The chairman pointed out that all ■ ’ testing was carried out by a grader appointed by the Government and lh>s iv;)j official was required in the first place to pass a severe test. At the request of the chairman the Government grader stationed at Waipu fac.tory, Mr H. B. Wallace, outlined the procedure adopted in grad » . ■ ' mg. Mr R. W. Johns, one of the diroc--1 tors, stated that he had been expenenciiig difficulty in grading questions \ 1 for the past 18 years and had not as yet been able to receive a satisfactory 1 -i explanation.