DRIED MILK INDUSTRY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 2

DRIED MILK INDUSTRY.

PROSPECTS DISCUSSED

DECLINE IN PRICE PREDICTED

T-ho prospects of the dried milk industry in New Zealand were the subject of comment by Mr. H. E. Pacey at tho annual meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Association at Hamilton (reports the "New Zealand Herald"). He &aid that during his absence "ii; Queensland in Juno and July the whole of New Zealand and parts of Australia were in a frenzy of excitement in expectation, of extraordinary payments* for hutter-fat fci\ the manufacture of dried skim milk. At present, however, the Dominion was adjusting its perspective. Personally, he never had confidence in the expectation of regular returns of from Ss 6d to 4s per lb butter-fat from the manufacture of dried skim milk.

Prior to the «ar, skim-milk powder \vas worth from £16 to £40 a ton; When war influences had passed pricee" might range for a time at about tho latter 'figure, but would grtiduaily recede' to a normal average. Over-prc-duction in the interval ""would hasten the decline in values. The normal prices of tho product would be quite useless in tho Dominion, as they would not equal the returns derivable frcm feeding the skim milk •to calves and pigs, or having it manufactured into casein. During the war period, owii:p to special and temporary causes, dried milk prices which would return about 3s 6d per lb butter-fat had been reached. Even under war conditions,, anc. with a free market, these values could not bo regularly - realised. He had communicated with Mr. Massey in London regarding the shipping "prcspects, and the possibility of free markets for dried milk. Mr. Massey's reply was discouraging. He had'definitely indicated that the market youV; bo controlled, and that New Zeala?^"! producers woutd* only have a chance 'n the busiiK-ss if tbo quality of the product was approved and the, price nirr;;. low enough. * - The Dairy Association, added Jh-. TVc-py, was the largest manufacturer cf dried milk in New Zealand, the output last season frorv) its factories at J'i'abv mata and Matr.ngi 'bani; 3,550,44]1b. The contract f: -- tho disposal r>f tV output, was K:i',i~i:actov-v to both th<direcjcrs aikl tho suppliers.

French surgical science pursues its distinguished wfty though -the heavens fall—and this particular manifestation of-it perhaps is active just .because the heavens have been falling these four years past (writes tho London correspondent of the "Sydney "Morning Herald"). It is concerned with the adminis fcmtion of chloroform; and Heaven knows the French surgeons have had work enough to do in that regard. Ona iof them, Dr. Guise/,, has found time, however, to extend the possibilities. oi;; chloroform by his study of its applica-! tion "to cases —such, for instance, :i»'. 'those'demanding.operations m the head and.-neck—hitherto 'believed fco be misuited to its use bj- reason, of the attendant risks. The" gist of Dv Guisez's disco'vory is v a new method of administering bhe anaesthetic. Instead of usingthe customary compress, or maslt", through--which the patient inhales the fumes, he applies the chloroform direct to the lungs by means of a tube. Borne hundreds' of cases have been so treated by him—many of them cases which would be regarded .-as endangered by the use of chloroform —with completely satisfactory results, and it is believed in Paris that the new method is a distinctly important advance upon the old. A secondary result from it is the entire absence of the chloroform sickness which almost- invariably has accompanied its use. In none of his cases has Dr. Guicficz observed this nausea, from which fact he concludes that it arises froni.th-3 absorption-by the stomach of some of the. uunes of .the drug when it is administered through the mouth. • Mr Henry Wood, United Press correspondent with- -the- iVrench' armies, telegraphs from Headquarters:—ln re-; cognition of the imTJortant role performed by the correspondents in promoting among the Allies a. greater understanding and appreciation of each. other's contribufciyn to tile common' cause, the French Government (at the request of General Potain) "has conferred the _ decoration of Chevalier of tho Legion ot Honoiir cm seven of the Eng- : lish and American corresuondets who I

have boon attached for the rcasfc 20* months to the ><>ench armies."" Those receiving tho distinction were:—Mr Gerard Campbell ("Times"). Mr G Herbert Perris ("Daily Chronicle" and "Daily Telegraph";, Mr Warner • Allen. ( Morning Post"), Mr Lester Lawrence (Reuters Agency). Mr Henry Wood (CJ.P.A. of America), Mr Robert Berry (Associated Press of America), Mr Paul Scott Mov.-rer ('-'Chicago Daily News"). Vt hou the rumoured ciiungts iti American uniforms, is made (says ibc New xork "Evening Post"; the reconciliation of General Pershing's famous antipathy for pockets with tho yeainino- of our soldiars for much greater pocket space will present a sartorial problem... 'in« general wishes our .uniforms to have ''more style/ but how 'their present desperate tightness .'aid starkness of outline could bo increased no one would, ventr.ro to j^uess, so it may be that the English rather than ,the West Point .note is to be dominant. Since the Anaaes paraded bo engagingly through our. streets has become clear that; discipline and freedom.in a soldier's dress areloss hostile to one another than we-had;. supposed—thai a good-lookirig uniform, neither a straight-jacket nor a kimono, was easily possible. "J'he Anzacs stand' as rigidly trim as our own trained men, but they can accommodate something: besides a silk handkerchief in their pockets when they crawl across Nu-Man's-Land—a cake of chocolate added to an i American ....soldier's uniform" becomes sh. physical defcei. - To live in the trenches in company with such primness must be an ordeal. Tommy can carry three jars. of strawberry jam, a jramo of draughts, extra socks, a- no<>el, and a few hand grenades about his porson, arid no ono. is the wiser.