MILK FOR CHEESEMAKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 20

MILK FOR CHEESEMAKING.

TARAMAKI EXPERIMENT,

DIFFERENTIAL PAYMENTS, "During last season the Whenuakura Dairy Company adopted a system of differential payments for milk for cheesemaking, based upon the results of regular microscopic grading of tho milk at tho Federation laboratory," Mr. P. 0. Veale, research chemist, has reported to tho Taranaki Federation of Co-operative Dairy Companies. "This innovation will be made the subject jf a special bulletin shortly, and accordingly I will report very littlo at present. Suffice it to say that there was a remarkable improvement effected in the quality of tho milk received at the factories, and a marked rise in the yield of cheese per lb of butter-fat, and in tho seasonal position of tho factory at tho grading port. The factory routine throughout tho whole season was characterised l>y remarkable ease and uniformity of working, -i considerably reduced requirement in starter, and a total absence of non-acid and other cheesemaker's troubles. This is especially notablo m view of tho fact that for a number of years Whonua kura had suffered seriously from chronic non-acid trouble at certain seasons of the year. ' 1 "The Purapura branch of the Whenuakura Company, manufacturing casein, secured the highest average grading points of the factories supplying curd to the v New Zealand Casein Company at Ara< mono, and their nroduet was characterised y a remarkable uniformity Moreover, the Purapura branch held the distinction !L;7il ng . Bu PP ,ied "P to March of this rocpivpf? rl 1 est quality casein curd ever received during a 10-day period This per ormancc, however, was equalled by P nn -ner company at a later period of the season, when conditions were undoubt edly easier, u )l to , *' leso facts aro definite proof of fVin £ benefits to be derived by the adoption of £ anlk grading with differential payments S . an<nt t h °P cd ".at by a voluntary £ « ten,l on of the system among its own j, members, the federation will B again the lead, as it has done in tho oast in the whole.of the New Zealand dairy in justry. Personally, I shall welcomo tho i