THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

North Otago Times, 2 December 1911, Page 4

THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Per Prcsa Association. Palmerston North, Nov. 30. Speaking at the opening of unc of Joseph Nathan and Co.'s new cheese factories, Mr Fred J, Nathan gave an interesting address upon the picsent and future of the dairy industry. He condemned the dual purpose cow,, and'referred to Iby-producta and his firm's own successful dried milk venture, whloh is to be extended: Those interested in this industry had so far only scratched the surface, and had nwer yet got ielow the.first skin. The manufacture of butter and cheese was not long going to remain their chief consideration, but in the near future the waste products from butter and cheese would be receiving tk-ir earnest consideration. There were enormous potentialities not yet recognised by dairy farmers In theso waste products. Articles which were being used not only in this country but in other parts of the world to •an enormous extent were in the Dominion being absolutely peglccted. r»e referred to the manufacture of casein, milk sugar and concentrated milks. There was at tbo present tiino to his knowledge an order waiting acceptance of 'KM tons pf casein, and when one remembered that this could he wholly made from skim milk, and that its value was anything between £SO and £l2O per ton, according to the finish of •the article, they would agree with him that there was a great future for this side of the industry. The, sugar of milk had at recent times risen to double its past value, and the demand for it was an increasingly growing one. Our supplies now were dependent upon the condition ruling in Europe. ■ The wholo of this might be produced In this country from the whey, but the farmers themselves . were to a ver y large extent to blame for keeping these new industries back, in so much as they put an inflated price on the value of their skim milk and whey. It Was never intended that the pig, to get 8 per cent of solids, should have to swallow 92 per cent of liquid, but the dairy farmers agreed that that was at any rate the cheapest method of feeding the pig, and witnout estimating his profit from his skim milk or whey, as the case might be, he never for one moment considered what it would cost him to purchase solids for the growing of bacon, or took into consideration the labor that he expended, and the capital involved ; and' until the farmer was prepared to take his proportionate sharer of the risk in bringing forth new business with the capitalist or irwchant, as the case may be, new ■businesses such as ho had nienitloned must be retarded. It was the boMiden duty of .the dairy farmer to give more attention to. technical and agricultural education. It wan th«lrj duty, even at some little privation, to themselves even at the pxpenso qf

economising in some other direction, to encourage to their utmost the younger generation to attend , tho technical schools so fßely placed at their disposal by. the-Government. Dnless they were prepared to make some little sacrifice towards this end, and-bo encourage their oMldren to attend these schools, and to receive the education in their own particular business, there was very littlo hope for tie increase In the future for this business that there should be.