The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-02-17
DAIRY FARMS IN AUSTRALIA
Cooperative principle Has Brought
About Improvement in Quality
OF Product.

Cooperative dairy farming in Aus
eralia has meant striking improve
ment In the quality OF the product.
When butter is churned by 80 diner"
emit farmers In district, 1t is newt
able that the result will be many Diff
Yerent classes of butter. Methods
vary. so do degrees Of cleanliness ano
skill. II the same fly farmers SEND
their product to a cooperative 1ac-
tory managed by an expert, the proc
uct will be one or two grades OF put
ter. very even in quality. The net
prices realized by the TWO dineTene
classes OF buttertlat To-, BY by indl-
yiduai home ehurnings and the buak
output Of the same SO farmers Supply
to the factoryWiIl be very large IN
deed, This has been emphaticany
demonstrated In Australia. Al tne
present time Australia milks nearly
1000. 900 dairy COWS, and in addition
70 supplying the local wants OF 4,oVo,-
600 people, the export OF butter lot
the last year amounted In value 20
no less than s3,953.000, approx
mately SIS, 100000. Without the CO.
lucrative system this would not have
been possible. The industry mas re-
ceiyed generous support from the
state governments. 1t was recognized
that if Australian butter was to oe-
come popular in Great Britain, 1t must
be manufactured along the most i'm
proved lines. Today the whole OF the
industry is under the strict super
vision of the state. Government Of
ficials check it all the way. from the
health of the cows to the tenpera-
tures at which the butter Is exported
and carried upon the state-subsidized
steamers and even on the wharves Oh
Tooley streets.
Veterinary surgeons inspect the
dairy herds from time to time, and
have power to discard diseased ami
mails. No milking is permitted except
In sheds with concrete floors. Tine
separating must be done and the cream
kept In specially constructed build
ing standing apart from the rest o
, the farm buildings. At the butter fac
: tory there is a rigorous inspection t
insure cleanliness. Before the butte
can leave the state it Is finally sui
!. iected to a compulsory system 9
grading, and branded with the govern
4 ment stamp as first, second or thir
: quality. This grading has had
marked effect upon the quality. :
. factory manager whose product
= graded as low Is at once in DANCE
!. of losing his position, and he In tur
4 condemns with equal vigor creal
|. which for any reason is not up
. standard.
v r. is satisfactory to be able to sa
IS that although this strict supervision
found burdensome by careless far1
Y era 1t has the most cordial support
d the whole cooperative movement.
IS whips up the laggards. The .goyer
b ment, however, does not stop at su
d eryision. but assists the farmers
s. every conceivable way to improve, L
,g u1altty of their product. Thus
n some Of the states large numbers
liz the best dairy cattle obtainable
bit Great Britain and other parts OF t
xorid have been imported by the 81
az ernnant and lent at nominal charg
he 10 the farmers. The butter facto
ed manager who is having trouble
is getting his output UP to first era
r. can obtain from the government
dc services Of a highly qualified exp
to advise him. This expert comes
.cs the factory and takes complete c
lid troll of the butter-making operate
in for several days, and If there is
,k- weak spot he does not leave until
US his discovered 1t and placed the N
OF ager and the farmers upon the ri
at track