The Farmer and His Farm

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15272, 23 June 1923, Page 16 (Supplement)

The Farmer and His Farm

The manufacture of dairy products begins on the farm.

The supplier is the foundation stone of the huge business organisation whose ramifications, have been outlined. Those throbbing, factories handling butter, cheese, dried milk and casein to the extent of thousands and thousands of tons annually would silently crumble into dust but for the ceaseless and regular activity of the supplier and his careful co-partnership with Nature on the farm.

On to the farm therefore the company’s organisation extends. The “Company” is of course the suppliers themselves, and in their own interests, directors and suppliers, have organised a service of instruction and dissemination of knowledge. Further, the com -

party assists the supplier by a comprehensive herd testing scheme and supplements his efforts to improve his cattle by advaning finance for the purchase of pure bred bulls with butter-fat backing.

In these three ways, therefore—by instruction, by testing, and by steadily aiming towards a higher standard of butter-fat production the Company collectively helps its shareholders to improve their own personal prosperity, financial standing, and domestic happiness. So comprehensive and all-embracing an organisation to oversee the production, the manufacture, and the marketing of the supplier s produce, and return to him the whole proceeds of same less the actual working costs is surely a triumph of co-operative enterprise and business efficiency.