The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-29

| workmen have been taught how TO
wash the cans Hints have been given
On feeding and on the care of stock
and milk in a score of directions. There
/ has been noted at the Association
| liant and with the buyers marked
| Improvement in the quality of the
! MIX. There is a fixed determination
70 keep up and improve the standard.
| The Association is keen for a milk
| Inspector. There are numerous rea-
sans why the combination urges the
authorities TO provide such an official.
| There. is forever hanging over the re-
pu5atian of the Association and threat
enllg its standing and efficiency the
idaeger of dishonest and unScrupulous
practice by some individual or group of
meI. Any OF the members will say
this. It is perhaps best TO omit publ
cation of the details, but the Associa-
tioa members want for an inspector
fearless and honest man with full auth
oI8ty and with instructions to stop
wagons and inspect milk with all the
pe1sistency and shrewdness that
skilled detective would bring to the
hunt for a criminal.
MIX is brought to the establishment
CT the Association from the dairies
twice a day. There is quite & lot of
work in making the tests, making the
transfers to the cans of the Association
and loading UP the wagons. There is
used every endeavor to keep the most
careful check on every pint Of milk
brought to the place. The plan adopt
ed is something like the scheme of the
in, hrn Joo;
In the basement at the Association
plaee there is separator driven by an
electric motor This apparatus is
centrifugal tool. There is a steel tube
into which holes have been bored.
This tube makes 1000 revolutions to
the minute and the cream drops in
tiny stream from one outlet as the
SKINNED" milk rushes in a little white
torrent from another. After a look at
the impoverished milk as it comes
from the separator, one can readily
accept the statement that it would be
difficult to palm SKINNED milk on
a customer who was able to distinguish
any two of the cardinal colors one from
the other. The milk from the separa-
tor goes back to the dairies as food for
calves and pigs. There is a sharp de-
mand for cream that often cannot be
met. When there is a surplus of cream,
butter is made right on the premises
and has ready sale.
EseTythiHg about the Association
place is neat and clean. 1t is a model
establishment in every way. 1t is be-
lieved that the partnership will hold
together Indefinitely. One Of the mem
hna TO lony iy. fnyrr dow ho
Association agrees that his contract
shall terminate. Others are applying
for membership. There is but one con-
Germ of any size on the Island al this
time that is not associated with the
partnership.
According to Mr.. Weirick, there is
not a great deal Of money in the milk
business in this country. The very
best COWS imported fail to keep up
anything like their records here. Some
of the local authorities assert that a
blooded COW will not give half so much
milk in the Islands as in the States.
Of course the cost of feeding and care
is greater. Just now the feed is poor
in all the pastures. This is on account
of the heavy rains.
One of the pioneer dairymen in
speaking of the Association yesterday,
said he was with it to remain because
it was run on strictly business prin-
ciples Our losses under the old sys-
tenn said he, were incredibly heavy.
Dishonest people would run UP ac-
counts and then Shift to another dairy.
Now they must pay or they have pill
kia without end"