DAIRYING CHANGES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 10

DAIRYING CHANGES.

AS A CONSIGNOR SEES THEM. • ; ; Mr.. A. Morton, chairman of theMangorei Dairy Company, a well .known believer in .ft consigning policy, has*a great opinion of-the •prospects,for'.the coming season.-;IIe told--Jiia shareholders on Monday' that they were going to have a first-class. . season. 1 i The. spring, though very wet, was early and .'Very, warm, th* cows had'come in earlier,' and-grass was abundant. .Proof of -thi.s-.'lay in .the fact that th-* company was making ten-boxes more biitUuv than at this tinio last year.; Prices-on tho Homo market promised .to be better than' last year-rccrtainlj; not worse—and .the .directors had again, decided to , adhere to the policy of consignment,.'believing; that.-to ,be in the best..interests, of the industry.,-Cpmpanies coh.signing. year in and year out, .'and. taking'out or the market all that was in it, must, come out right, in .the end, for it had ; 1 110' middlemen s charges to pay.' The benefit/from ;the- National Dairy . ■ Company's co-operatiyo '. marketing scheme - was• mostly an /indirectVone, chief among which "wis the fact that.the company. ,liad 'the benefit of the'services of. the assopia'tion'tf'Home:agent, .who had>the);fullest'access to the oi the agents butter of the' companies which ,ha£L- appointed/him. 'Another indirect benefit, as the'Mangorei.-Copj-. well 'knew#., had'heen,. manifested in' the reduced price at\Whicly.they had been'ablo' to' procure basic-slag?: through the. asAs. for. benefit,, he mentioned ilte, fire 'on- the ?aparo'a,- ;Shp:;had .fcdargo quantity of New, Zealand butter. on ;board. in'clridirig some; of: MangOrei's. i-*By; pis action that butter hadbeen made' torealise cwt. instead of-:1035.,-its -market v'alue.vv He tended . thai the Homo agent ;had. not cost the company a-penny;last year.. ; , v ;_ : ?t ; \