DAIRY FACTORY NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13014, 29 June 1906, Page 3

DAIRY FACTORY NOTES.

I EFFECT ON LAND VALUES. {Australian paper.) It is 'worth while \ for landowners to note the significant effect of dairying upon land values in those Australian States •which have organised that : industry upon an exporting basis. The cream separator, the factory, acd the refrigerator, have rendered butter-making to a large extent independent of climate. In -dew of th» vast extension of the boundaries within which dairying is possible, and taking into account the fact that the refrigerating chamber of the steamship makes the whole world a market, it is evident that the industry is one which possesses an interest- for all landowners, including those whose property » at present far from the centres of butter production. At sobdivisional sales in all of the butter-pro-ducing States to say that the land offered is suitable for dairying is the highest recommendation, and it is a fact of suggestive importance that much of the mghest-priced land in Victoria is employed in supporting milch cows for the supply of butter factories. In Western Australia, where dairying has scarcely reached the point of supplying towns and cities with nmfc, and in South Australia, where the industry makes but slow progress,, this potent agency for increasing the productive value of land might -well be made larger use of. In Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, dairying is extending, it .seetms to deserve encouragement by all vho are interested in progressive movements calculated to provide profitable employment and increase the value of the returns from the use of land.

THE HOME SEPARATOR. The home separator in its many yeare.' contest for patronage in Australia" has won steady Tictories from the first. It was opposed, not only by the conservaf the established system at batter lactones asd creameries, but also by all the official experts, and there were not ®° me Juirocates of legislative prohibition. The many advantages of the home separator, however, led to its increasing popularity, and as the conditions of certain districts, such as the hilly coastal portions of Victoria and New Sooth Wale®, Tendered difficult and costly tiie aeLtveiy of milk at factories or creameries, it began to be recognised that tne new machine had come to stay. It did .not stay, however, in the districts practically suited for it, but proceeded to mvade the proper domain of the milkcelivery system. Factory directors who declared that the best- butter could: not oe made from home separator cream are berug obliged to accept increasing quan l onc€ despised raw material, and the question is being asked—ls the factory separating system going to -stay? It is cow being realised, what unprejudiced minds recognised at first,"that home separator cream when properly handled J™* make first-grade butter. Those leadersi in dairying who are forward in arranging for the proper management of home separator v creaiu will suffer little from an - innovation which a preponderance of economical advantages is destined to carry far. " COLLECTING CREAM. The system of collecting cream, which originated in the hill country of- Gipps- . ' m Victoria, is one of the most admirable examples of economic- co-operation in connection wit® the dairying industry, -the factory sends waggon teams along certain routes to collect the cream car* which are brought to the track bv the suppliers. Thus, instead of 100 "dairymen, each with his small quantity of cream, yoking up a team acd making a long and time-wasting journey to the factory, one man raid team doe? the work, the sappKer paying a small cuarge for the service. In addition to the obvious economy of this system, it has m;ide dairying available -to hundreds of farmers distant from factories who othetwi?e would not have been able to profit, by -the industry. The scheme was not "originated by the co-operative factories, but by proprietary firms purchasing cream. * Nor have the co-operative factories in adopting it been able to use it to the best;ad-

vantage. They have been competing with one another bo keenly that';'the collecting waggons of two dr thrW •factories have been-rummig along the same roads. That such- policy should have been* deftSbfled - sKows that these- daiiy iffuch. to leara'atioirfi ojJwaiicm:^ T ? The Vfatet is that fitniss f&r" effective . co>-operaSdn is a" quality which is slowly acquired.