FEED FLAVOURS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10922, 24 August 1928, Page 5

FEED FLAVOURS

IN MILK. In speaking to the matter of farm daijry instruction at the meeting of the Tararua dairy company, Mr A. L. Porter stressed the fact that feed flavour very largely entered into the question of quality. He doubted very much if all ’the farm instructors in the world wmj uld make a farmer give up root crops and, so long as they were recognised as a part of good farming practice, we wuld have food flavour in milk to contend with. Mr C. Meng gave it as his c pinion that filie chief obstacle to securing better quality milk was the cream lorries running, about the district. They picked up everything, good, bad and indifferent and called at “finest.” One speaker observed that while it was on reeprd that while 'the factory was closed for the winter a certain supplier had forwarded his cream to a butter factory operating in an adjoining district and got “finest” for cream some of which was six days old! That of course would not go on for ever and sooner or later the supplier would be made to suffer. Another speaker voiced the opinion that the grading of cream was “all rot,” as If a man had a bad liver on a given day lie was apt. to be a “bit hard” in his classification of the cream which c-anie his way. In any case it was too easily to be seen that the present system had laid itself wide open to abuse and this condition would grow with time, it was contended.