PAYMENT FOR BUTTERFAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1932, Page 2

PAYMENT FOR BUTTERFAT.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l have just read a letter in your paper commenting on the action of the Rahotu Dairy Company in deciding to try out a new system.of payment for the milk to be used in cheese-making. Fair dinkum, I could not understand your correspondent until I reached the end, when his pen-name of “Southern Cloud” explained the matter. The name is a happy selection for one who has his or her head in a cloud, and is doing his or' her best to cloud the issue. What has the battle of the breeds, or the Western Front, to do with the directors, who, as I understand, are business men trying to put their business on a sound footing. The directors run a factory which makes and sells cheese. They know they cannot make cheese from butterfat alone, and evidently as honest men and business men they think they should pay for the material they need to make their cheese from. Casein and butterfat being tho two main substances necessary, it is only fair they should pay for both according to values, instead of paying for one only and leaving the other out of tho reckoning, although they simply cannot make cheese without lt- These Rahotu fellows have minds of their own, and it is not the first time they have been on the front line. More power, say I, to them! The other thing which your correspondent throws up as a cloud screen, tho “production” per acre, is no business of the directors. Their concern is the successful running of their business of cheese-making; the production can be left to each farmer on his own. My advice to the directors is never mind the clouds, carry on with what is fair and just, and they will come out all right in the end.: I am, etc., SUNSHINE.