DAIRY PROGRESS IN WOODVILLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1529, 27 August 1912, Page 8

DAIRY PROGRESS IN WOODVILLE.

THE DISTRICT AND NEW CHEESE FACTORY. The growth of Woodvillo as a dairy manufacturing district is agaiii in evidence by the erection of a now cheese factory at Riverside, a few miles out of tlie town, and to be opened on or about September 1. The district already possesses several important dairy institutions, a#d the advent of the Riverside factory will make three cheese concerns all within three miles of each other. The new factory, which, by the way, is being established by Messrs. Reeves and Williams, who started the Woodvillo cheese faotory, will commence business under the most promising auspices. It will lie in an area of about 2500 acres of rich alluvial river soil, banks of the Manawatu River, in a district where the absence of froste has made winter dairying an established fact. The factory 'is in an area that grows splendid lucerne crops, and will bo under the control of Mr. E. Williams, a practical and enthusiastic cheeseinaker, whoso record in that line has been one of continual success. After a lengthy experience in the big Dalefield factory, near Carterton, Mr. .Williams was pioneer manager at Raumati, near Dannevirkc, and then he established the present successful. Woodville cheese factory. Mr.. Williams has always had a great opinion of the future of the Woodville district for prodnoing cheese. Since his establishment of tho Woodville factory he has made cheese there all the year-round. At the present time his Woodville factory is receiving over 800 gallons of milk per day, and tho introduction of winter dairying must in the end mean a great deal to the district generally in giving the district a. greater productive value, and thereby increasing the price of land. It has been said before in The Dominion that the dairy factories of the country are in a great measure its primary banking institutions, and this fact is well evidenced in Woodville, where of late years tho price of-land through the establishment of dairy factories has gone up over 100 per cent. Dairy land which was £20 per acre three or four years ago in. Woodville is now over £40 per acre,' while at Riverside, where tho new factory is being erected, it is £50 per acre. It may bo said that the Riverside land possesses many exceptional qualities, so much so. that it is what is known as "one-cow-to-tho-acre country," as is that fine strip of land on the Waimate Plains, near Manaia, and with the process of 50 or 70acre farm allotments, with further cultivation, the prico of such areas must inevitably increase, so long as wo are assured of the quality of our article and its marketable possibilities. The new factory is well situated for drainage. It is being built on nlans ap- £ roved by Mr. Chuldie, Chief of the Dairy dvision of the Agricultural Department. It will have four vats, and will bo capable of dealing with an output of 300 tens. The number of suppliers for tho commencement will bo about 10, whose sections will range from 50 to 70 acres of land,