NEW ZEALAND DAIRY PRODUCE
. - TO THE EDITOR •-;.;. Sir, —May I ask what can be wrong with otrr dairy industry!- that' we can get only such a -low' price for our butter onthe Borne' market- 1 compared*with Danish? Is it- not' true' thrit-years ago there was very-, little difference' in "price, ! end during. that’ 1 time"were' not hand-ling^early-ri!T the' milk 'for ’butter here? In that system only thenight’s .milk had; to be looked after on the farm. Home separating -is' different " in • .that' cream is kept off the farm.- for days. Few dairyfarms in-New Zealand: are equipped with a dainrrcapable.of .'holding cream for’days, in a first class condition, though -farmers generally.are clean and careful-with milk: andrcccam: I: have-been toldr,that dairy:; farmers .'ini-Denmark I 'take their,-milk, to thft iactorry,; and if that is so,-then we can -;-see > that- -the- - factory there takescharged of the-milk •where it can he treated as .requirqd.-. We have ,now some factories collecting, cream, daily, but I do not see in the paper, that they are getting Danish prices.- We have Government, graders, butwhere .do they fake their standard 'from?' ; Are they' men of ‘ practical knowledge of the .standard required at Home, or are' they educated' to New Zealand conditions only? Mark this,it is evident that the; taste'of :New Zealand people arid Hoirie people is different. There is a big difference between the man who .has had. practical experience in-various--'countries and the man who hag local knowledge .only.. We are told by competent ..judges, that ~we have, the sunshine and pastures that make for the highest quality*;.':: Surely : there is the foundation* %-X-.believe we, can. have butter equal to, ’any other,, hut so.long as in'the dark as to the reason, then 5 we • •will jhat wander on, while the plight’ df the dkfty farmer is deplorable. Wfiat ffs iwanted' to-day is a comparison taken ffoiff; the.: farm to the consumer, at Home.fay -a .practical iuan.—l aim .etc., ,-1." -, s /* ■ ' BpTJCPgFAT, Dimback! November 15/ .*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 19
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