IRREGULARITIES ALLEGED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3771, 19 June 1936, Page 6

IRREGULARITIES ALLEGED

IN BUTTERFAT PAYMENTS. “Consideration of yields of butter and cheese as per pound of butterfat has disclosed certain irregularities in practice at creameries and cheese factories,” declared Mr W’. M. Singleton, at the National Dairy Conference at Hastings, on Wednesday. “The reading of the fat column is made after a manner which gives the supplier less credit at one creamery or cheese factory than he may get at another,” continued Mr Singleton. “This 'point is determined by whether the company takes to itself all the fractions in, the readings or permits the suppliers some of these. It is considered that one of the regulations could be so amended that the leading should be more uniform. It is intended to require that in the testing of cream, the butterfat column shall’be read to the exact percentage or to the nearest per cent.” “The methods vary in accounting for fractional pounds of butterfat as for each testing period, and for the month. There are companies which give the supplier credit for as many as three places of demicals and others which credit no decimals. These irregularities have some influence on the nominal payout and on the yield of butter or cheese as per pound of butterfat. I purpose recommending amending regulations which will require payment for butterfat to two places of decimals or their equivalent,” concluded Mr Singleton.