The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-14
FOR PURER MILK
Local DairymGl Form an AS
ISOLATION.
ALL MILK TO BE TESTED
Standard of Milk to Be 3
Per Cent Butter Fat.
Distributing Point to Be Lincoln
Block, King Stfeet-Begin
Operations July lSt.

Following close upon the tuberculo-
sis campaign, the dairymen of Honolu-
| lu have organized, and will endeavor to
sell the public absolutely pure milk.
With the Strengthening of cattle at
tackled by tuberculosis there will nat
urally result a milk famine, as few of
the dealers will replace those killed
for some time to come. With the short
supply of milk the dairymen are of the
opinion that it should be pure, and to
prevent the unlimited use of water the
association is formed The promoter
of the scheme is Manager Weirick, of
the Woodlawn Dairy Company.
1--WE are as much interested in Civ
ing the people pure milk" he said
to receive it. Then there is another OBJ
ject in forming. the association: By
| the present method, every dairy has to
have a number of wagons on the
routes. Some people get milk from
| two, and in some cases, three differ
ent dairies. Wagons leave one extreme
of the city and deliver milk at the
other In order to reduce the expenses
| of this part of the work, and to insure
getting a better quality of milk, nearly
all the dairymen have formed them
selves into an association.
About July 1st we will establish a
central distributing station in the Lin
coin block, on King street, near Ala
kea All the milk from the associa-
TONS COWS will be taken there and
distributed by means of the regular
delivery wagons. 1t is estimated that
the work can be done with less than
one-half the number of wagons now
used.
"The standard of association milk
will be per cent butter fat. Each
dairy will have a standard in addition
to that, and this will be obtained by
our visiting a dairy and securing milk
direct from the COW. This will be test
ed and the result posted in record
book. The milk taken from the dair-
les will be on the basis of the test made
from milk taken direct from the COW.
For any milk testing under per cent
the association will pay / cent a quart
under the per cent butter-fat stan
dard.
milk that goes very much below the
association standard will not be sold,
as it is of too poor a quality. This
will be creamed by the association
and sold.
eve believe the public will be better
served by the establishing of the as
ISOLATION than it now is. Wagons will
reach residences from one to three
hours earlier than they now do. This
in itself will be great advantage. Re
garding the purity of milk sold, the
public does not understand the causes.
In our dairy we use large proper
| ton of imported feed, mixed with
chopped sorghum. This, we consider
makes a richer quality of milk, but
even with this, the milk is affected by
various causes. For instance: When
we have south winds and the cattle
are warm, they refuse to eat, but they
! drink at every opportunity. At that
| time the milk is not so rich. AS to
| butter, we find no profit in 1T, for II
| takes a can of milk to make quart OF
| cream, and it requires that much cream
to produce a pound of butter, which
we sell at go cents. We get 81 for a
| quart of cream, so you see, there is
more money for the dairymen to sell
| the cream