N.Z. DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 12

N.Z. DAIRY INDUSTRY.

STRIKING AMERICAN

TRIBUTE.

(FEOSt OU3 OHX COESESrOXDEXT.)

SAN" FRANCISCO, May 20.

Many interesting compliments liavc been paid recently to New Zealand enterprise by American authorities, and yet another has been recorded in tcspect to the Dominion's leading position enjoyed in the dairy world, the well-deserved tribute on this, occasion coming from the lips of Br. Theodore Macklin, of the University of "Wisconsin, one of America's principal agricultural experts. Production. of dairy produce in Now Zealand- has doubled during the'-past ten years, and may be doubled again in/the coming ten years, declares Dr. Macklin, who recently returned from New Zealand, where he had made a study of the situation for the University of Wisconsin and the United States Department of Agriculture, and to the Governmental Department he .lias just presented, his report, which has' been widely circulated, throughout America. Some 6,250,000 acres of land are now devoted to dairy production in New Zealand, Dr. Macklin says.,. The area can be increased ultimately to at least 10,000,000 acres, and. probably 12,000,000 acres. In 1916 some 20,251.farms .produced. 157,760,176 pounds - of factorymade butter .and cheese. In 1923 there was produced by 38,51S farms a total of 316,236,272 pounds of factory-made butter and cheese.

"New Zealand butter and cheese," lie says, "once received in small quantity in London, llow represent the largest combined import of dairy products from any country.: Moreover, that .country has outstripped Canada as a source of cheese supply, and is rivalling Denmark as a source of butter supply. This position has been won both by quantity and quality of production. In 28 years New Zealand,' aa a butter competitor of Denmark'iu supplying' the British' market, has"'growu from a size of less'than one-,twentieth to almost three-fifths of the size of Denmark.

"Conditions under which production •is carried' on 1 in New'Zealand'permit low cost .of production. lias been good to tho dairyman, there, and due to the' cqtidblc,' mild, climate:, abundant rainfall, and combination of soil, topography and cheaply obtained fertiliser, a largo output of bu.tter-fat per acre is realised without tho strenuous effort required' in Continental regions of the corresponding latitude in the Northern Hemisphere. • . Machine Milking. "Twelve months of pasturage for cattle is the rule, and investment' in barns is not "required. About half of the cows are milkod by machinery. Tho milking machino has -comevtd stay iu New-Zealand; and is doing there for tho dairyman'what the binder has done for tho wheat-grower •of tho '• United States. A small .milk-shed., is constructed to liouso the ' machinery, as . the cattle aro not housed in \>arns. • The milk-shed ;.is generally equipped with a four-cow plant. A man and a boy with .this, equipment can easily handle from 40 to 50 milking- cows. Gasoline is commonly used for power, but with tho rapid introduction .of . plectricity for rural use, this type of powor is becoming popular; on account of the reduced .cost and convenience. - Conservative estimates- of the farm cost of producing buttor-fat indicate that .the cost inrl924; was ; not more than two-thirds as great, as in Wisconsin. " . ; (' Another outstanding', cause- of Ncw ; Zealand's superiority, is •: jindrfubtedly' the character of leadership iboth from , tho /industry itself and from • the Gov-, drnment.. -Its leadership is able and woll-informed. Business judgment, both by this leadership and by the management, employed 'in ih'o dairy factory system, is prized and encoiiraged.- ; • "Evorywhero among tho progressive dairy farmers! co-operativQ organisations, which cover the Dominion,. it seems evident that New Zealand dairymen will attack every problem vigorously. The primary aims of the cooperative; leadors. in the dairy industry are to lower cost of production through enlarged' output of both the farming and- faetory■ unite; to- make the best butter. in the world and ■to market. it bo that■ producers will realise satisfactory -protits from their business." 1 ' A-complete preliminary'.report of-Dr. Macklin's investigations into the- New Zealand >dairy 'industry - has. been prepared, :and will ; be available to. the public shortly in mimeographed form from the United Stat'e's Department of Agriculture, so important docs Uncle Sam consider the methods pursued in New Zealand, and which tho United States Government are . anxious for ;Amorican: dairymen .to emulate as .far as possible in the. United' States..

- ■ 1 . NEW BANK RATES;

(si CABLE —PBES3 AesbctATION—COPIBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN N.2. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) "LONDON," Juno 12.

Tho', selling "rates on ; New Zealand from to-morrow, arc: Demand drafts and mail transfers; par; cable transfers, 5a per cent.," premium. Tho rates for purchasing documentary bills are: Sight, 20s per cent, discount; 30 days. 31s 3d; 60 days, r 42s 6d; 00 days, 53a Ud.

MEAT EXPORT PRICES.

CURRENT WEEK'S SCHEDULE.

Following is tho current week's schedule (commencing' June 12th) for export meat:—

"Woolly limbs—First quality to' 361b, lid; 3? -to 421b, lOtd;' over 42ib, ,10d; second quality, 10id; . shorn lambs lid per lb less than' abovo.

Wetncrs—Firat' quality to - o6lb, 7M--57-lblb, 7id; 65-721b, ,b;a; over 72ib, 6id: second quiiify '

Kwcs—Up to fc-llb, 6id; 6S-72Tb. 4Jd; over 721b, 3Jd. .

METHVEN STOCK SALE.

•The fortnightly stock salo was iekl in tbft eaio . yarus. pn Thursday. 'lho yarding ot lat stocic was a, smalt one. ■ Uno ouistauoins pen ot eight iambs oflered on .account ot Jkir J. E. .Harris, of Highbani, bruugnt 375, which was the lop price oi the diy. Th'o lol.owiEg aro the principal eaies: 4s-fat iambs-at *9-tit 30b lid,'3B at 27a 4d, 12 fat ewca at 25a. Stores 250 three-quartcrbred .ewe iambs at. 27s Sd, 303 four and fcuMoott threc-quirterbrod 'ewes in lamb at S7a 7d, 45 merino, wethers (culls) at 3s 9d, 30 sound mouth merino wethers at 33s 10d,- '62, three-quaxterbred wethers at 32s 7d, 127 mixed' sex ■ threequarterbxed .lambs .at 203 6d,, 65. two-tooth hilibred wethers at 82s 3d,5> at 32b 6d, 293 loir,'" flii* "and"eight-tooth ""fat T and forward ...wathers at 36s 6d, 1.00 .merino,,., wethers, sound mouth,. at 20s 6d. Pigs—3 baconere at £l 17s 6d, 1 boar at £3 17a 6d, 1 tow at? £4, 2 eotva at £2 7e <x3, 1 rreaner at ss, 15 fat lambs at 26s 2d, ICO at 27s €d, 72 at 25a 4d, 11' fat ewes-&t 25s 3d, 57 failing' mouth halfbred ewes at 2fia''2d, -21-' fat ewes at 22s 3d; 16 at'24s 3d, 17 at'l9s 2d, 1, at 24s 6d," 62 at ,22s l"d,'.49!fat lamte at 2Ss. 9d, 72 at 27s lid, ,ICO s.in;- merino, wethers at ,20s 6d, 342 halfbred'cmr lambs »t'27s"Bd, 88 fat ewas at 17s, 32at~208, 31 .at 14s,' 27 fat .. lambs at 27s Id,' -61 at ; 2Ss,; 35 cull ewes , at' lis, 30 -fatsewes at- 255. lid, 38 • at' 2Ta, ~ 27- at -24s -ld>* -2' at 17s-9d, 10 at SOs, 47- fat lambs'.at-525,.26 at 265, 31- at 82s 4d.