BUTTER INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10200, 3 August 1896, Page 3

BUTTER INDUSTRY.

TO THE EDITOR SlH,—There seems to be a probability of a collapse in the above trade in our portion of the colony, unless creamery proprietors are prepared to pay a fairer price for milk than they have been doing. Tho Government have made very great professions of wishing to push forward the industry, but as yet they have done next to nothing. Now is their time to step in and help. One way I would suggest for them to do is to carry all produce to or from a creamery at a very uomiual rate, or free , for a time perhaps, and then let the manager add that paving to the price paid to the milk supplier. J. am glad to note in a recent issue in the Wellington news, that the Government are inclined to consider favourably the suggestion I made to tho Hon. Mr. Seddon on a visit he paid this district about a year and a-half ago. I allude to tho milk testing. This is, and always will be, the cause of great discontent to milk suppliers undor the" proBent system. If it completely under the management of a disinterested party, all would be satisfied that they got justice and now they don't think so at all, The highlypaid dairy experts would be doing some good ft put on this job instead of going about trying to teach peoplo to make butter. Leave thatto the creamery managers. They are quite able for it, if they get the supply of milk, whioh thoy will, if they only pay a living prico for it. ' I was very-muoh struck with '• readingln tho Auckland Weekly News of June 27, an account of the radiator butter , extractor. If this machine comes into/ general use, which I expect it will, it must be a considerable saving in time and labour, and thereby expense, to tho creamery manager, for, by the account, it seems to be a very simple thing to produco butter almost at the one action. In the ' Farm Notes from England,' there is a further account of the same machine, whioh is most satisfactory. Milk producers will surely derive some benefit from such a machine, as it ought to enable a better price to be paid them for rhcii milk. Milk suppliers generally have fixed their price at 3n per gallon, ana unless that is paid, little milk will be supplied.— am, etc., H. Crispe.