CLEANER METHODS WANTED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 21, 25 September 1913, Page 4

CLEANER METHODS WANTED.

The well-known Loudon trade paper, “Tne Grocer,” complains ol the quality of last season’s New Zealanc

cheese, and goes so far as to assort that “it has been continually proved ; during the last few years that the' grading of New Zealand cheese isj totally"unreliable as a guide to the| quality which retailers may expect to: have delivered to them,” and thatj “until such time its the quality of New Zealand cheese equals that of Canadian, the risk of the market being adversely ..affected during the winter months will have to be recognised. Referring to this the Wellington “Post” points out in this connection it should be stated that C anadian cheese sells on its merits, being ungraded, and its average price in London last seasqn was (14s 8d per c\\ t.

as against New Zealand’s 62s 6d pei cwt In the year 1910-11 the differ once in favor of Canadian cheese was but 7d per cwt. Clearly, the prici tells, and that of last season was bn the sequel to the disclosures made a Palmerston North by the Dairy Com missioner, Mr Cuddio, regarding tli want “of j>roper care and cleanlines with milking machines, and that th< real remedy seems to be in the exercise of greater cleanliness all round.

mil it is to the interests of those cheesemakers whose product last season, as formerly, was beyond reproach to do all that they can to bring theii 00-manufactnrers into line. The “Post” goes on to say: The prospect' arc decidedly good, for Canada’s pro duction, although increasing, is be ing more and more absorbed in Can ada itself, and besides this, the removal of a duty of 3 cents, per pound or Ms per cwt., will naturally divert some of the Canadian exports iron: the United Kingdom to the Unitec States, thus leaving a wider area foe New Zealand to cover in the Mother land. But the cheesemakers of tbi; country must not run away with the idea that they have complete contro of the cheese markets of Great Britain and Ireland. They contribute 29,489 tons last season, England anc Wales an almost similar quantity and Canada and foreign countries some 87,700 tons. The Greater Do minion has won her top place in tin cheese market solely on quality anc without Government grading. “Tin quality is kept up splendidly,” is Tin Grocer’s comment on Canadian cheese If the journal in question is eorree in its indictment of the New Zealam grading system something should lv done, how that the New Zealam cheesemaking season is about to he gin, to restore that confidence till a apparently lias been wanting “for th last few years” on the part of Brit ish retailors of New Zealand cheese.