MILK SUPPLY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 7

MILK SUPPLY

ro THE EDITOR

Stb —The tone of Mr J. Hellyer s letter in Friday’s issue was somewhat modified from his arrogant threat over the telephone a day before, when he stated he would publish a challenge to the effect that should he fail to prove my ability to supply milk from Jersey cows he would offer to subscribe £lO towards the Mayor s Fund. The sum mentioned would, I am sure, be welcome to that fund. . For the special information of Mr Hellyer and other critical competitors allow m e to state that my chief supplier, who has been supplying since we opened business in . the retail milk trade, possessed a complete Jersey herd or around 70 cows, and has taken over an adjoining form which includes 12 cows, which possess no Jersey strain.' Of this herd 56 are at present in milk and several heifers are due a few weeks hence. Another supplier possesses all Jersey cows, 50 per cent, of which are grade cows. These cows may not be mentioned in the Stock Book, although the bulls are and were bred by a well-known Milton breeder. My suppliers keep cows for production and not for snow purposes. Another of our original suppliers, whilst possessing few cows of Jersey strain, is included not because of his high butter-fat test so much as because of his efficient handling’of the m Ak during e'”ery stage of production. Cleanliness comes prior to quality, and it is our aim to lead in both. As I have never spoken to Mr Hellyer except in the conversation oyer the telephone already described, it is not open to him to write that I stated 1 could supply pure Jersey milk, nor was any advertisement displayed at the Winter Show to this effect. Mr Hellyer mav therefore be advised to ascertain facts. , , I think from what has here been written that our Mayor’s Fund is entitled to £lO from Mr Hellyer. I regret having been drawn into this controversy, but you will receive no further letters from me upon this subject.—l am, etc., Eric James, Manager James Jersey Dairies. June 17.