GENERAL JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 8

GENERAL JOTTINGS.

The dairy companies of Dannevirke district intend increasing their sphere of operations ;in tho coming season. - Tlv? Norsewood Company, which previously purchased cream only from shareholders, intends, it is stated, buying from outside sources, paying the freaght on tho milk. The Taranaki Company is reported' to have completed the purchase of the Rua Roa Co-operative Creamery, which will in the future be run in conjunction with the Taranaki Company. At a recent meeting of the directorate of the Wavcrley Co-operative Dairy Company, jthe chairman. Captain Jonnston, gave .some interesting and important figures showing the benefit to be derived by manufacturing cheese instead 61 butter. With butler at lljd. per lb. f.o.b. New Zealand,, or 118s. 6d..per cwl. f.o.b. London, co-operative factories could pay suppliers 11 5-Bd. per lb. for butter-fni. With cheeso at 08s. per cwt. f.o.b. London, allowing !)»: per cwt. ■ for freight from New Zealand to London, net price 50s. f.o.b. Wellington, factories, after allowing for working expenses, etc., could pay 14.75 d. per lb. for 'butter-fat."' If whey butter is made an additional .55(1/could .be' paid, bringing Che price per lb. of butter-fat to 16.30 d. There is therefore a difference in favour of cheeso of 3.675 d. per lb. This return, tho "Eltham Argus" understands, was prepared for tho Jlangatoki factory, which decided most emphatically to'instal a checse,plant immediately. According to a statement submitted by the- secretary of the Taranaki Agricultural Society (Mr. A. Cliff), a profit , of .£3OO odd was realised on, the wintor show. At the last meeting of the Canterbury A. and P. Afsooiation, the Conference Committee reported thai, thirty-one delegat©3, representing fifteen different associations in Canterbury, had been appointed to attend the conference to bo held on July 18.. The committee had made arrangements for two papers to be rem ■nno.by..Mr. R. E. Alexander, on "Soil Moisture," and ono by Dr. I'. W. Hilgendorf on "Pure Seeds."

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