[Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911.

  • Great Britain. [Royal] Commission on the Irish Milk Supply.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Reports and Appendices] of the Irish Milk Commission, 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    U. UNITED IRISHWOMEN. Work done by; depot in Borris and itinerant distri- bution at Fenit. 30319-34. Might organise Milk Clubs (see Milk Clubs''), 30839. V. VETERINARY. Power of Local Government Board to compel a local authority to ofier an adequate salary to a veterinary inspector, 32718A-21. Well-paid inspectors, cases of, 32727-31. Appointment of county veterinary inspector recom- mended, 28755-7, 29769-73, 32207-12. It would be inconsistent to have whole-time veteri- nary inspectors under the Dairies Order if the medical officer of health remained a part-time officer, 32696-701: need of these officers being in an independent position, 32702-4, 32836-9, 32843. See also Dairies Order : Veterinary Inspector and Adniimistration of the Order. w. WHALEY, GEORGE (Chairman of the Enniskillen Urban District Council). Enforcement of the Dairies Order in Enniskillen Urban District, 26007-19, 26048-50. Magistrates co-operate to have the Order enforced, 26014-5. Improvement possible in regard to the storage of milk in shops, 26020-1, 26094-8. To prosecute would mean closing the shops. 26022-4. The Order as regards bvres is strictlv enforced, 26025. There is no scarcity of milk in Enniskillen at any time of the year', 26029-30. The Urban Council should have power to inspect outside dairies supplying milk within the town, 26045-7, 26080-i. The Rural Council have only recently appointed a veterinary inspector, 26051-3. Supervision of local administration by a central authority desirable, 26062-6. Favours licensing dairies and cowkoei^ei-s instead of registering them. 26059-61. The Dairies Order should apply to all the bv-products of milk, 26083-6. WHYTE, WM. R., J.P. (Manager of the Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society, Enniskillen). There is scarcity of milk in Enniskillen in the winter, 26295-6. The creamery does not retail milk, 26299-302; and M'ould not be prepared to do so if asked because of the labour involved, 26303-10: not even to meet a bulked order, 26486-95. Milk is rejected if not clean and sweet, 26311-3, 26425. Creameries in the district have agreed not to take milk refused by one of them, 26314-21. The creamery is inspected by the Department, ■ 26322-3; the inspection is most helpful, 26324-5. Method of separating and cooling the milk, 26326-43. 26450-6. Separated milk should be cooled to make it keep better, 26457-65. Creameries in the North do not work on Sundavs, 26349-51. Believes the milk-yield of cows has increased, 26352-8: partly as the result of tests made for farmers by the ereamerv, 26359-61. Price of winter milk, 26362-70, 26386. WHYTE, WM. R., J.P.—co/ifua<cd. Winter dairying has not been found profitable by those who tried it, 26380-6. The butter content of milk varies sometimes accord- ing to the pastures the cows feed on, 26387-9. Farmers give their labourers the use of a cow, 26397- 403. Labour is scarce in the district, 26405-16. Precautions taken against receiving milk from houses in which there is infectious diseases, 26426-33. Cow-testing associations have been established in the district, 26437-41. \\IDAL TEST. There is occasional objection to the application of. 31266-9. Power to apply, 31123-4, 31126. It would not be wise to rely on, to discover typhoid carriers, 32273-9. There is no right to apply it compulsorilv, 32757-64; nor to interfere with the liberty of a known typhoid carrier, 32766. There is limited power to isolate contacts, 32765. \MLSON, R. J. (Secretary to the Omagh Co-operative Agricultural and Dairy Society). There is no scarcity of milk in Omagh, 30055-8 30098-102. Average price paid for milk by the creamery, 30065-70. There is an increasing winter supply, 30074; it is necessary for the maintenance of the Irish butter trade, 30075-81. Winter feeding, 30082-7. Dairy stock suffer by the export of the best cows 30090-4. The creamery could retail milk without incon- venience, 30103-6. In the country labourers get milk gratis or at reduced rate from farmers, 30109-34: and are allowed to keep goats, 30124-8. The Dairies Order should apph- to home butter- makers, 30138-9. Milk is very rarely rejected because it is dirtv, 30145-51; cloths are not used under the lids of tankards, 30153-5; milk cans are cleaned at home, but cream cans are scalded at the creamery. 30156-64. WINTER DAIRYING. Farmers think winter dairying does not pa\, 27047 27393-8, 28990-1, 29060-9, 29111, 29544-9. Has not been found profitable by those who have tried it, 26380-6, 29924-7. Would be taken up if it paid, 27418-20. But the calves are better, 29924. Increased production of winter milk, 26577, 30074, 30255-61, 30309-10; causes, 26578-87. Price of winter milk, 26362-70, 26386, 26588-9, 28992-3, 29071-6, 29137. The winter-calving cow gives a heavier yearly yield than the summer-calving cow, 27399-402. Lack of winter milk injures the butter trade, 26374,. 29118-9, 30075-81. There is not much winter calving in Co. Donegal. 28009. Winter dairying practised, 28633-40, 29267-76,. 29350-5; and found to pay, 29950-61, 30002-7. Whether winter dairying pays depends on the cow's yearly yield. 29131-6. Winter'feeding for cows. 29165-86, 30082-7. Profit on winter-calving cows, 29350. WOMEN'S NATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION. Have opened a pure milk depot in Sligo, 27250. Eglinton Branch, Co. Londonderry, gives milk to necessitous children, 28625-6. Might organise milk clubs (see Milk Clubs ), 30339, Dublin : Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, By Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., 87, 88, & 89, Abbey-street. 31616. Wt. T. L 385 12, 12. 8, 875. 11. 1913.