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Tinderstaud tlieir business — none better — whose metliods of "work are 

 most economical and profitable ; but, then again, we have large num- 

 bers in this colony, as elsewhere, who having but recently taken to the 

 industry, have little real knowledge of anything connected with it, and 

 who, consequently, arc doing much unremunerative work. These men 

 require to be visited by travelling instructors to fully advise them in 

 pastures, fodders, improved and economic farm methods, with other 

 allied subjects, for the purpose of cheapening the production of an 

 ample and regular supply of clean rich milk. 



The Government might take a more extended oversight of the 

 industry than is given by the present Dairies Supervision Act, and 

 take cognisance, not only of the farm and dairy buildings and cattle, 

 but also of the suitability and condition of dairy machinery, and the 

 qualifications of dairy managers. Also the compulsory registration of 

 export brands, and the penalising of misrepresentation on the exterior 

 of a package. There are some who advocate the official grading of 

 butter before exportation, which I am assured by exporters and large 

 salesmen in England to be of no value whatever at the port of arrival, 

 as the article may not be landed in the same condition in which it was 

 shipped, and when put on the market it is always sold on present 

 merits. 



The simple method of registering export brands would throw the 

 responsibility of quality on the shipper, who would strive to maintain 

 the reputation of his brand. A minor benefit I can see in grading is 

 that a number of our present butter-makers, whose goods, through our 

 faulty system of selling, obtain top price, would soon learn that their 

 makes were not really of first quality, and would have to mend their 

 ways or give place to better men. 



The Government has expressed its intention of assisting the industry 

 by means of increased facilities for transit to place of manufacture or 

 port of shipment, providing cool storage if necessary, and in various 

 other ways. For this purpose, it has already appointed a Board of 

 Advice, which is intended to work in various ways in the interests of 

 producers and exporters. 



