BRITISH DAIRYING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22240, 15 October 1935, Page 5

BRITISH DAIRYING

INCREASE IN PRODUCTION finding suitable outlets SCOPE FOR EXPANSION Efforts are being made in England to find new outlets for the increased home production of inilk. Supplies are being made available at a low price to schoolchildren, milk bars arc being opened and proposals are being made for opening depots in the poorer urban areas, where milk can be obtained at u cash pTic-e without the added costs of door-to-door delivery.

The agricultural correspondent of the London Times suggests that, while the liquid market offers the best returns, there is scope also for the expansion of the market for condensed milk, milk powder and cream. Milk used for the manufacture of these products, gives a better return than milk used for butter-making and cheese-making and, since the bulk of the imports of processed milk comes from foreign countries, and not from the Dominions, it is possible to deal effectively with the import position and make more room for home production. The writer does not agree with those who think that the Milk Marketing Board should engage on its own account in the manufacture of butter and cheese. "It has been urged that it would be sound policy for the board to establish more creameries and encourage farmers to separate milk at home and deliver the cream for the manufacture of butter," he says. "This plan has the obvious advantage that the skim milk is left on the farm, where it is wanted for feeding pigs and calves, but to produce the finest quality butter a uniform quality of cream is necessary, and this, if not made impossible, is not easily attained when milk is separated on a hundred different farms. It would be futile, in the present depressed state of the butter trade, to contemplate the business on a large scale, unless we mean to top the market. "While Empire supplies of butter and cheese are forthcoming in abundance at low prices, it seems the wfsest course to find a market for Britain s increased output of milk, first, by expanding the demand for _ fresh milk and, secondly, by replacing foreign condensed milk by home production.