MILK SUPPLY.
Sir,—Farmers at present are getting about Is a lb. for butter-fat. It takes from 251b. to 501b. of milk to give- lib. of butter-fat; that is to say, farmers are getting about 4Jd a gallon for milk, and we aro paying 2s Bd, and poor milk at that. Occasionally we see that a milkman is fiiicd for putting water in tho milk;* hut what about the use of preservatives ? This should uot be permitted. Milk is delivered in the mornings only. What becomes of the previous nights milk! Undoubtedly thSfe is in most cases added to the other, and they try to prevent its turning sour—in hot weather, because in winter milk will keep sweet for 48 hours—by scalding it, or adding some preservative. There should be a provision that milk not delivered within six hours of milking must be labelled "stale milk" or "preserved milk," and charged at a lower rate. \\e should then know what we are buying, and this is a matter of life and death for infants. Stipulations of this kind would encourage milkmen and dairy farmers to deliver milk straight from tho cow. Some of them do now—sometimes. HOUSEHOLBEB.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17978, 31 December 1921, Page 10
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