Payment for Milk Quality.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 24 (Supplement)

Payment for Milk Quality.

The Danes have an excellent means of maintaining milk quality. By law all dairy companies must apply the reductase test once a week to the milk of each supplier, and on the basis of this test the milk is divided into four classes. Class 2 is standard, Class I receives a premium, and. Classes 3 and 4 suffer deductions. Payment for butter-fat makes for quality milk and cleanliness grades for clean milk, the incentive in both cases being the higher return. In the case of very dirty milk some companies have adopted a very effective remedy. Conspicuous red labels are affixed to the farmer’s milk cans, and these are dropped at the roadside for all to see. Pampas Grass Fodder. / Success from the use of pampas grass as a cattle fodder has been achieved by Mr. Alec McClean on his farm at Waitakaruru, on the Hauraki Plains. From an original specially palatable clump of pampas grass Mr. McClean has systematically set out to improve the original strain, and with considerable success. This to such an extent that he has now what might be termed an extensive nursery of pampas grass, and this ..is being steadily extended by the use of selected plants. The creation of the nursery was decided on not only to obtain improved plants for himself but also to meet the growing demand by others for the strain of pampas grass.