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The concluding portion of this article, 

 ■which will appear in the next issue of the 

 Journal, will be devoted to the illustra- 

 tion of a simple set of forms by means of 

 which farmers who elect to keep their 



own accounts, without outside assistance, 

 may do so with a minimum expenditure 

 of time and labour. 



{To he continued.) 



Dairying in New Soutit Waies. 



TN The Australasian, " Talpa" writes : 

 X —The South Coast District has 

 frequently been described as the ''Garden 

 of Kew South Wales." This term must 

 have been invented by someone who only 

 took the rich bottom lands and its 

 luxuriant vegetation into consideration. 

 At any rate, it is an error to speak of 

 dairying being conducted in a ''garden, 

 and this is in reality the most notable 

 feature of the District. No doubt the 

 scenery and wonderful variety of the 

 flora are sufficient to charm all lovers of 

 the picturesque, but it is its cows chiefly, 

 numerous butter factories, and the in- 

 cessant rattle of milk-cans and cream 

 separators that give the locality a dis- 

 tinctiveness all its own. At every way- 

 side station the handling of milk-cans 

 appears to be the principal occupation of 

 the railway staff, and nearly every cart 

 one meets on the road is filled with cans, 

 some being quite large wagons, drawn by 

 two or more horses. Some of the mam 

 roads are good, but others are suggestive 

 of winter ol)stacles, as I found some of 

 them almost impassable after the heavy 

 rainfall experienced a few days ago. 

 Short lines of light railways appear to 

 me to be the thing required for the out- 

 lying districts here, for the fanners find 

 it very difficult indeed to cart their milk 

 over bad roads, and for which reason the 

 " home " separator is growing more and 

 more popular in spite of all damage to 

 the industry the system is said to be re- 

 sponsible for. Where the roads are bad 

 no dairyman can afford to cart whole 

 milk more than three or four miles, and 

 some will not go a greater distance than 

 one or two miles. The home separator 

 has then to be resorted to, unless cream- 

 ing stations are erected a1)out every mile- 



post and experience has taught the 

 farmers that without a complete re- 

 frigerating plant the cream from their 

 own separator is equally as good ; and, m 

 fact often better than that obtained at 

 the local creamery. In either case it has 

 all subsequently to be transported to a 

 modern-equipped factory, and where the 

 refrigerating apparatus is wanting tne 

 pasteurising process is now generally 

 adopted -at local creameries. 



The Berry Central Factory. 

 The Berry Central Butter Factory is 

 one of the best-equipped establishments 

 ill the colony. The buildings are situated 

 close to the Berry station, and but tor 

 the sign on the wall might be mistaken 

 for railway premises. The situation is 

 handy for receiving supplies of cream 

 from up and down the line, and there 

 are some nine or ten contributing crea- 

 meries to the Berry Central Factory, 

 besides numerous private suppliers ot 

 cream in the immediate neighbourhooa. 

 The butter produced here h'as a very 

 high reputation, Mr. M'Veigh, the 

 manager, having gained more prizes at 

 local, and also in the Royal and Govern- 

 ment butter competitions, than any other 

 butter-maker in Ne .v South Wales. He 

 is a strong advocate of pasteurising and 

 probably a deal of his success is to oe 

 attributed to the adoption of this system. 

 It stands to reason that with so many 

 different suppliers there must always be 

 some milk or cream of doubtful qiiality, 

 and pasteurising it at 176deg. iahr. 

 renders the whole more sound and uni- 

 form from the butter-maker's point ot 

 view. The Berry factory can, at least, 

 afford to pay ^d. per lb. more for pasteur- 

 ised milk than for unpasteurised, and this 



