The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1898). Published every evening since 1914. THURSDAY, DEC. 30, 1926. COMPULSORY GRADING OF CREAM.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 30 December 1926, Page 4

The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1898). Published every evening since 1914. THURSDAY, DEC. 30, 1926. COMPULSORY GRADING OF CREAM.

For the New Year a page is to be turned by the dairy companies in accordance with Government Regulations, and cream, is to be paid for under new methods. There ar? two issues upon which the price is to depend that are new in this connection. In order that cream shall have the best opportunity of arriving at the factories in good condition, it. w insisted that it shall contain as lit tie as is reasonably possible of the readily decaying milk. The, purer the cream the longer before its de- , terioration sets in. To' this end it i is decreed that cream which con tains less than 35 per cent cf butter fat shall receive a halfpenny per pound less than cream contain ing 35 per cent, butter fat. That is one method of payment and the second is payment by quality apart j from blitter fat content. Cteam is ( to be graded “Finest”, ‘First { Grade" and “Second Grade.” Cteam £ that is clean in flavour, of uniform consistency, and free from appreciable defects in all respects will be ( classed “Finest” and receive the top ( price if it is per cent, butter fat e “First Grade” cream will be that r which is clean in flavour, of uni- e form consistency and is free from £ serious defects in all other respects, c and for this one half penny per pound less will be paid. For cream below ‘First Grade” if it is fit for the manufacture of butter fit for f human consumption, a penny per ® pound less will be paid than for , “Finest”, and speh cream will be . called “Second Grade.” All cream 1 received at the factories and found unfit- for human consumption will be satined by adding methyl violet to it and the .owner will have to pay i cartage both ways when it is return- s ed to him. These new regulations I will no doubt cause some heartburnings at first but when under- I' stood will be seen to be in the best r interests of dairy farmers, whose 8 returns after all depend largely up- F on the price paid for our butter at 11 Home, and that in turn depends a largely upon the quality of our butter We cannot hope to hold our own with those countries which lie r so much nearer the Home market fj

unless the quality $ attractive, for on we compete If tion to the separate’ eliminate the superfhj given, there need be? penalised the halfp^ 1 below 35 per cent, this is a mechanical ' those other points ri: ing cream “Finest” fU which may not be ov t 2 supplier who finds bj finest. Cleanliness J* and care such as i s w milkers will soon tion “Finest " within » grade cream, which j,, free from “serious soon be a thing of th,> people who eat dairy commend the stainin»A up to seoend graded ing it imjxissible that J vended for human CWs{| look forward to good the leaf to be turned | Year by the dairywhose activities this’eoun much.