THE DAIRYING SEASON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 7

THE DAIRYING SEASON.

MANAWARU AND WAIHOU.

TWO PROSPEROUS FACTORIES.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORIIESI'ONI EXT. ]

TE AROHA. Monday.

Tho Maria dairy farmers are having a prosperous season. The milk supply at the factory is now 7600 gallons per day and 94 export cheeses of 841b. each are being manufactured. The suppliers number 42.

The farmers supplying tlio factory are nearly all in the district group of the Herd Testing Association. The teste at the factory average 3.8. Of the output this season two-thirds have been white and one-third coloured cheese. Experiments arcs being made with the object of reducing the losses duo to shrinkage. The whey is separated and tho equivalent of 1501b. of butter-fat is obtained daily. The Waihou butter factory last week turned out about 9A tons of butter daily and for November the output was about 240 tons. This factory deals wholly in tho home separated area, the • cream being brought in by lorries over a radius of about eight miles. The pasteurising department has lately been fitted up with an aerator cooler in which air is drawn from above tho roof, passed through a purifier or "air washer," and then brought into contact with tho hot cream, driving off all bad flavours. A quantity of whey cream comes to the factory. For this there is a separate plant, one feature being that the cream is pasteurised and cooled in the same vat by boiling and then cold water through coils of piping inside the vat.

Testing receives a good deal of attention and every assistance is afforded farmers to prove their cows. The individual system has been adopted. The average production per cow last season was 274.451b. of butter-fat, the average days of milking 246, the largest quantity of butter-fat produced by one cow 592.301b. for- 310 days, and the lowest 124.441b. for 270 dav<. The average yield of butterfat for the highest herd was 488.5411). for 321 days, and the lowest herd averaged 225.311b. for 239 days. About 40 herds are under test this season.