Quality Dairy Produce
p. 39 · Read in the full issue
From Australia
Australia is one of the world’s leading exporters of dairy produce, including butter, cheese, ghee, powdered milk, condensed milk and edible and industrial casein.
It has a total herd of more than three million dairy cows and exports of dairy products in 1959-60 amounted to 362,276,000 lb, worth £A45,284,000.
The Pacific Islands received in that year 1,471,000 lb of other milk products from Australia, as well as 91,000 lb butter, 20,000 lb cheese and 113,000 lb ghee, of a total value of £225,000.
In the last five years Australia’s total production of whole milk, from which all its dairy products are made, has averaged more than 1,300 million gallons annually.
The dairy industry in Australia is streamlined, with the most modern machinery, Australia’s dairy products are noted for their purity and quality for they are processed and handled under strict supervision to conform to standards laid down by the Commonwealth Government.
Photo shows the £A70,000 Rotolactor dairy at Camden Park Estate in NSW—one of the few projects of its kind in the world. It is circular, revolves a full circle once every 10 minutes, and is designed to milk up to 2,500 cows twice a day.