HANDLING DAIRY PRODUCTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15237, 26 February 1913, Page 8

HANDLING DAIRY PRODUCTS.

NEED FOE CLEANLINESS.

Home separation of cream is working a great change in the dairying industry of the Dominion, but there is still much to be learned, apparently, for Mr. 6. M. Valentine, in the Agricultural Department's Journal, makes a great point of cleanliness. "There is," he writes, "one word of advice on this subject which cannot be repeated too often it is the first and the last word on the successful handling of dairy products, and it is the secret of success at the present advanced stage of the industry, Just as it was when the dairy farmer and butter-maker were working "under the most crude conditions. This all-important word is cleanliness." Mr. Valentine also states that " the day is near at hand when cream will bo paid for according to the condition in which it reaches the factory, as well as for its butter-fat content. The men who liandlo their cream properly should assuredly be recompensed in money value for their trouble, just as t!»© men who fail to realise their duty in this connection, and thereby reduce tho market value of the factory's output, should be penalised."