THE THRIFTY DANES.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 3, Issue 5, 15 November 1911, Page 376

THE THRIFTY DANES.

To New-Zealanders who have personally investigated the dairy-factory work of Denmark the , only feature which; has appealed to them as being in any measure in advance of the system of co-operative buttermaking in vogue in the Dominion was the attention to small details, economies in apparently minor matters, which, in the aggregate represent a not inconsiderable reduction in cost of manufacture. An instance of this policy of thrift is the use in some Danish butter-factories of a milk-draining stand, illustrated on the opposite page, on which the milk-cans are inverted as soon as these are emptied of their contents, in order that every drop of milk may be saved. Danish authorities declare that the cost of these drainingstands, well-made appliances, have been covered by the saving effected in only a few months, and that the annual economy effected a good reduction in the expenses of management. This conveys a good idea of the very careful work of the industrious Dane. While, however, it may pay in Denmark, where the individual milk-supply is small (often as many as 140 suppliers being necessary for a daily output of a ton of butter), and labour is cheap, it would be impracticable under our conditions.