ao July, 1909.] Review of the Dairying Season, igo8-g. 



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The proportion of superfine butter amounted to 29.02 per cent, as 

 ■compared with 34.45 per cent, for the year before; first grade butter 

 53.7 per cent, as against 51.4 per cent.; second grade butter 16.7 per 

 cent, as compared with 12.72 per cent., and third grade butter 1.05 per 

 ■cent, as against 1.19 per cent. There were only ten boxes of pastry, or 

 .003 per cent, as compared with 984 boxes or .2 per cent, for tlie year 

 before. The chief reason was discrepancy m flavour. Some of our milk 

 supply factories are undergoing exactly the same experience as all milk 

 supplied factories have encountered in the transition stage from a milk 

 supply to the home separator cream supply. In addition to the usuar 

 falling off experienced during this stage managers are incurring the full 

 ■complement of difficulties. Generally all the cream is pooled and one 

 quality made. At first the quantity of this class of cream is not sufficient 

 to warrant separate churnings for each can, or cream vat, and each churn- 

 ing is distinct in quality. This portion of the factory's output is placed 

 under one brand, the result being great irregularity in quality. In many 

 instances we find three different grades included in the one comsigment 

 under the same brand — each of half-a-dozen churn marks merits a different 

 .score, no two being alike. 



Short Weights. 



It is satisfactory to learn that only 520 bo'xes or .193 per cent, were 

 stopped from shipment during the sea.son as compared with 10,840 boxes 

 .or 2.24 per cent, for the season before. The firm and consistent manner 



CHECKING WEIGHTS, EXPORT BUTTER. 



-in which exporters we're dealt with has put an effective check on the undue 

 paring of weights. In the early history of deficiencies of this class the 

 private and proprietary factories were by far the greatest offenders, whilst 

 for the past season the co-operative factories have held this unenviable 

 palm; 376 boxes or 0.13 per cent, of co-operative butter was stopped, 

 20 boxes or 0.007 per cent, of the butter from private factories was inter- 

 cepted, 64 boxes of 0.023 per cent, presented for shipment by agents, 

 buyers, and exporters, not manufacturers, and 60 boxes or 0.022 per cent, 

 in the case of city companies and firms manufacturing and exporting. 



