CHEESE AND RICH LAND

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5508, 14 January 1914, Page 2

CHEESE AND RICH LAND

A TARANAKI PROBLEM

By Telegraph. Press Association Wanganui, Wednesday.

It transpires that some of the cheese factories in South Taranaki are confronted with a serious and difficult problem. They have received word from London of the existence of a taint in their cheese, and the consequent unpopularity of the brands. The managers have been instructed to exeicise the greatest care during the process of manufacture, and, as a result, he managers have been rejecting all milk that in their opinion is in any way tainted. They find no fault with the morning's milk, but of the milk kept overnight they have rejected during the course of a month as much as 25 per cent, of a dairyman's supply.

This is a serious matter. The rejected milk, as one supplier explained, is eminently suited for buttermaking. "The fact of the matter is," he added, "our land is too rich for cheese-making. We will have to go back to butter-making or casein. The cheese will always come from land of second-class quality, never from first-class land, while the opposite obtains in regard to buttermaking." He said that unless something was done whereby his rejected milk could be profitably utilised, he would be forced to stop supplying after this season and go in for butter-making on his own account.