GRADERS-AND GRADING.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12536, 30 December 1933, Page 2

GRADERS-AND GRADING.

NO FREEDOM OF CHOICE. Is cream-grading above suspicion? Or is the cream-grader affected by the power (or, conversely, the lack of power) of tlie cream-supplier to change his factorv ? Since Government regulations limited the power of the cream-supplier to go from factory to factory, looking for a more intelligent grader, it is said that the- independence of these graders is becoming most pronounced. One day the grade will be 92, and the next day the same cows, same grass. and same every :‘nng will give 91 (not 93) and nothing got dropped into the cream, ether! “Cow Cockie*’ writes iu a r. iri,_ ern paper: “I think the time is opportune for a better system of grading. Since this new Government regulation prohibiting a supplier from changing from one factory to another minim the season :r is very noticeable that the grading points are not as high as in vious years. The supplier has now to be content with whatever the grader determines, which is most erratic. My experience, supplying a northern factory, is that when cream was collected every other day F obtained super. Now that the supply is daily I receive only firstgrade, and on a rare occasion super. One morning my return will be 91 points, the next 92, without any reason for the difference. “My cows are grazing on the same pastures, so it is not a change of feed. I am only one of many complaining this season. It see hardly fair that the grading of our cream is left entirely to be determined by one grader. We hope this problem will be solved before another season commences.”