AERATION OF MILK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11879, 10 November 1893, Page 3

AERATION OF MILK.

"We have noticed that MeFsrs Reynolds and Co, are giving preference to those milk suppliers who use properly construcrod milk coolers before taking their milk to the factory. In this no doubt the firm is encouraging the right thing in dairy practice. Without proper aeration much milk becomes tainted, and the cream yielded by it makes butter that will not keep sound despite every care in manufacture. Tainted milk dees not necessarily emit an odour. The more dangerous the faints the less odourless it is. Doubtless this sounds strange to some, but, nevertheless it is a fact, in the warm nights of summer milk acquires taints imperceptibly, 'those are more readily cresyted when a fairly large body of hot, fresh milk as it comes from the cow is poured into receptacle without aeration, Where the apimul heat is retained, decomposition sets it very rapidly and in an hour, or at most two to three hours, the damage is done. Here we have the basis of all the trouble that occurs with cream that ' suds,' or holds gas. Everyone who has tried to churn that sort of cream must retain a vivid recollection of the labour in getting buttor, and the inferior thing it was when the churnm? was completed. Aeration in the first instance would have i removed the possibility of taints and the ] subsequent difficulties that attend its transformation into butter. A la'rgor degree of attention to the question of aeration would solve many a knotty problem in butter-innking,besides making the returns of dairymen larger. — N,t), Farmer. ____^___^_

It is reported that the leoently-reanied Duke of York has leased Bomo land ad. joining the Sandrmgliam estate, and has begun to stock it with high bred animals. Having (says one paper) been forced to abandon the sea as a profession, the Duke of York intends to occupy himself seriously with farming as a pursuit. Agriculture in England is in a had state, and nobody can hope to find a Pactolian stream in it. It is, however, a patriarchal and gentlemanly occupation, and farmers will welcome amidst their ranks the royal i^wcomer.

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