COOLING OF MILK NECESSARY

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1933, Page 8

COOLING OF MILK NECESSARY

ADDRESS TO MATAPU FARMERS. OUTLAY JUSTIFIED BY RESULTS. A meeting of Matapu fanners was addressed on Wednesday night by Mr. J. L. Taylor, general manager of the Mangatoki Dairy Company, the subject being the cooling of milk. In order that the best quality cheese and butter could be produced, he said, it behoved all farmers to send only the best milk to the factory. Farmers generally were clean and efficient, Mr. Taylor said, blit a small percentage had to be brought up to the higher standard. He urged farmers to deliver their milk early to help the factory staff produce the highest grade of product. He favoured the registration of factory managers to ensure that the best article would be made from the milk.

Mr. Taylor said he believed in a differential payment of M per lb so as to spur the inefficient farmer to give greater care and attention to his work. Second grade milk would be tested each day until it was brought up to first. Opinions were divided as to the best method of testing, but Mr. Taylor considered the curd test was the best. The curd test gave managers a good idea of the curd the milk would give. Whatever kind of test was adopted the object was the same, that of improving quality. The great bulk of the produce was first grade. There were many types of coolers that would give good results, Mr. Taylor said, but jt was essential to get the night milk’s temperature as low as possible and if that were done first grade would be practically assured. The greatest problem was undoubtedly that of obtaining cold water; it would pay farmers to sink wells. The night milk temperaturo had to be brought down to 65deg. Fahrenheit and it was to the advantage of every dairyman to instal some form of cooler.

Mr. Taytar said he learned that there was a factory with 50 suppliers in the South Island where every one had a cooler. If that was necessary in the colder climate of the south it was doubly necessary in Taranaki. The cooling of milk would do away with a lot of worry. Mr. F. Hoskin suggested that the experimental farms should try various types of coolers and recommend the best. Mr. Taylor said cooling was so important that he would urge every farmer to spend a few pounds on some form of cooler. The result would well repay the outlay.

Mr. Taylor was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.