The Proposed Featherston Dairy Factory.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2091, 13 July 1887, Page 2

The Proposed Featherston Dairy Factory.

To the Editor of the Wairarapa Standard. Sib,— Being one of the largest shareholders in the proposed dairy factory, I wish to direct the attention of all interested to a fact which I fear will militate most adversely against my probable success of the venture, viz., the extreme difficulty of carrying milk even a distance of three miles without injury. I had not recognised that any difficulty existed in its transit until this last ten days, during which time 1 have been sending milk to Wellington, and 1 find that even with the great* est care, and in spite of doing all with the means I have available to cool it, even at this time of the year, it frequently sours and churns, and if the difficulty is so great at > uis time of the year it would be intensified ten fold in hot weather, and to convey milk successfully to the factory it would entail an expense which few farmers would care to incur, viz., a refrigerator, which with the a- cns&ty fixings, tank, pumps, motive power, &0., 1 estimate wonld cost not less than £45. Commending these facts to the serious consideration of all interested. X am, dto„ Mcbbat J. H. Jackson. Sunnyside farm, South Feathers too, July 7 t i887.