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receiving platform ; the milk is then turned 

 into a tank, weighed and strained, and passed 

 direct into the separating tanks. The woman 

 will then draw away her donkey-cart to make 

 room for the next one in the order of procession, 

 and the separated milk will be returned to her 

 through an outlet in the creamery wall direct 

 into her cart. This she takes away for her 

 pigs and calves. About once a fortnight an 

 official of the creamery will test the milk from 

 each farmer's cows in order to arrive at an 

 average of the percentage of butter-fat. Then 

 at the end of the month, the cheque will be 

 paid to each farmer according to the amount 

 of butter-fat he has sent in, and the market 

 price obtained for the butter. 



A further step, in my opinion, should be 

 taken by the Department, in exercising some 

 control over the quality of the butter, that is, 

 to standardise it as is done by the State of 

 the Australian Commonwealth, and a further 

 step in voluntary organisation might be at- 

 tempted by the Irish creameries (such as has 

 been brought about by the English poultry 

 societies) in linking themselves together to 

 avoid competing against each other in the 

 same markets. 



