CHAPTER II 



CO-OPERATION AND THE DAIRY FARMER 



IN the dairy world the Creamery Company has to a 

 large extent stepped into the breach, and the farmer 

 has a direct market for as much butter fat as he can- 

 produce. One cannot urge the farmer to produce 

 when there is no market immediately available for 

 his results. The world's markets are indeed open 

 to all ; but this is only true in a sense, since the in- 

 dividual farmer cannot hope to place his dairy 

 produce in them without the aid of a co-operative 

 dairy company. More butter factories are therefore 

 required, so that having the market almost at his 

 door the farmer may be induced to produce more. 



There are many who contend that the dairy 

 industry is in a bad way, and who argue they are 

 being robbed if they only receive is. per Ib. for 

 butter fat whereas in the bygone days, before the 

 advent of the creamery, all they could get was from 

 6d. to is. per Ib. for butter on the local markets 

 true, some exceeded this figure, but they were in the 

 minority. This type of farmer does not consider 

 that Australian butter, in pre-war days, sold at 



