HOME SEPARATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143587, 28 August 1911, Page 4

HOME SEPARATION.

GOOD AND BAD FEATURES,

The business aspect of “home separation” as an alternative to the creamery system was dealt with at length by Mr. Wesley Spragg in his address to tho annual meeting of the shareholders of the New Zealand Dairy Association last Wednesday. He wished, he said, to give homo separation all the commendation it was entitled to, as it had some good features as well us bad ones.

Tho butter generally- made from collected cream was inferior, though it need not bo, if everybody did everything as they 7 should. The United States, whether the system originated, furnished conspicuous examples of failure to produce high-class quality; Australia was probably little or no better, and that New Zealand can collect little drops of cream, and bulk tiiem with satisfactory results, was not in the least likely. After dealing with the ruling prices obtained for the lower qualities of butter in Australia, Auckland and London, Air. Spragg referred to the losses made in home separation. Accepting 9RI or 9.COd as being tho net price paid for the butter-fat in the cream supplied, a serious deduction had still*to bo accounted for, the loss made through the homo separator. Tho average of tin’s loss was reported by the dairy schools of the United States as 0.25 per cent., or almost 71b. out of every hundred of all tho fat in a 3.6 per cent, milk, and this .seven per cent, would be paid for if it was purchased in milk form. A good separator, run with regularity and skill, will not lose so much; but managers of New Zealand co-operative home separator cream factories had reported losses in separating as running up in some cases to 10 per cent. Now Zealand home separator butter probably had sold in London at a better price than Australian; but that was because up to the present it had been sold on the reputation made by the creamery manufacture, and under the brand ■ of “pure creamery butter,” a description which many home'separator factories were anxious to continue to use. Home-separated cream butter should be exported under its proper description, and sold on its own merits; but until a proper descriptive export brand was sanctioned by the Government the makers had no option but to send it under the present false clas- , sificacion.

They had no quarrel with the home separator business if honestly carried on under its own name, and believed it should be fostered in remote places, where distances were great and roads not practicable for a creamery centre, The company’s present policy with regard to homo-separated cream was that in the meantime they would take it when desired, upon the same terms and prices as for butter-fat delivered in milk form, the cost of carriage from tho point of delivery to the central factory being borne by the company.

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