"BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 8

"BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS."

D URYIN'G A'LM'AHIATUA.' £ 'v.i'heTdairj 'industry is 'progressing : -by''leaps land" bounds 'in the f ahiatua- .district (writes ,our''Pahjatt(a/'corresporident). For,the month of September tho large amount ;.0f. ; 1,667,9181b/ of. ftiflk ;,wa» delivered'; tb -the butter ..factories and-crohmeries of the Ballance Dairy, Company.- -Tho yield -of butter-fat •'l-from ''this amount was 02,7031b., with' ail' averago test'.of 3.76. '■ This ' is a large inere'a's'e'on the r amolint supplied during September. 1908; the'-figures then being'l,24o,B9llb'. of milk, equalling-45,9041b. of butter-fat: The increase.equals.between 'nine and ten tons of butter-manufactured.' The,test this season is' also slightly -better,than, last year.' Every factory -yet visited ■is receiving a larger daily supply than at the-same, period in former, years. Cheese factories are;also'doing well, and At the • Mangaramarama 'Co-operative Cheese factory it is understood, that a.new, vat of CMrton capacity is to be put; in ; :to'cope with the increasing supply, which ,at the.', present time is over 1100 gallons daily. ' From this factory 40 cases-have been railed for-, shipment.' ' .The climate here is particularly' adapted - for grass growing, and dairy, farms; a'rp,eagerly sought after, as tlie facilities for'ilelive'riug milk to the various factories are extremely good, and both'butter and cheese factories are now .scattered in every part of this, district.,;