1910.] The Organisation of the Milk Supply. 819 



have been declared free of disease by the Public Health officials, and 

 permission to resume taking the milk has been obtained by the 

 purchasers or their Manager from the Local Authority of the place to 

 which the milk was being sent. 



Members who have a good water supply and appliances for the purpose 

 of thoroughly cooling their milk at home might be relieved of the twice 

 a day delivery except during very hot or sultry weather. 



The milk will be delivered in vessels belonging to the members, and 

 these can be washed and steamed at the Creamery and returned ready 

 for use. Specially constructed tins, the property of the Society, will be 

 used for conveying the milk to its destination. 



A considerable saving in railway carriage is likely to be effected by 

 a strong united effort towards that end, failing which by competitive 

 motor transit. 



The milk will be cooled and handled in the most approved method, 

 so as to satisfy the most scrupulous Public Health Authorities. It is 

 therefore likely to command not only a higher price but a more ready 

 market. 



At times when milk is plentiful and the demand slow, arrangements 

 will be made for converting all surplus into first-class cheese or butter, 

 thus relieving the market from over-supply and the seller or purchaser, 

 as the case may be, from unavoidable loss. 



In addition to buying the milk of members, the Society may also 

 engage in the marketing of the eggs of the members, the profits arising 

 therefrom being dealt with in the same way as the profits arising from 

 the sale of milk. 



A form of agreement is attached to the foregoing statement 

 under which farmers agree to sell and deliver to the proposed 

 Co-operative Creamery Society the whole of the milk pro- 

 duced on the farm, except what is required for home 

 consumption, for a period of not less than two years. 

 Stringent rules and regulations have also been drawn up by 

 the Central Organisation for the guidance of committees and 

 managers of the Dairy Societies. 



It must be borne in mind in connection with the formation 

 of the milk-selling societies that one cannot lay down a hard 

 and fast plan. Different situations arise in different districts. 

 In one centre the primary object may be a milk depot for the 

 treatment and distribution of milk, with a plant sufficient to 

 deal with the manufacture of the surplus into cheese. At 

 another centre the business may be partially a milk trade 

 and partly the manufacture of products. In the scheme, 

 therefore, for organising the society, and in the plan on which 

 the depot or depots are to be erected and equipped, due allow- 

 ance must be made for these varying conditions. For 

 instance, some districts will be found where milk-selling will 



