REXDALE DAIRY CO.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1835, 22 August 1913, Page 10

REXDALE DAIRY CO.

ANNUAL DEPORT. The annual report of the Bexdale Cobperativo Company, Ltd., for the year ended June 30, states that tho milk delivered at the factory was 4,599,4991b., it i.eontained 173,6(i1.131b. butter-fat, and proMuced 158,8591b. (201 tons 1G cwt.) of, . t cheese. The averago test was 3.775. The (cheese manufactured tho previous.season i amounted to 140 tons 19 cwt. Tho quanHi'tylof milk required per lb. of cheese |"wos '10.02, one pound of butter-fat proiduced 2.611b. of -cheese, and tho cost of manufacture was .42d. on truck. After ! paying an advance to suppliers of .£BOB2 j 12s. 10d., the profit and loss account has u credit balance of .£-168 Os. 7d. This the fdirectors recommend should be disposed Vof as'follows:—iC36l 103. as a "Bonus of fed. per lb of butter-fat supplied 1 , .£23 12s. las a dividend of C per cent, on paid-Tip icapital, and the balance,. 12s. 7d., be .'■written oil the properties and plant. The (average payment for butter-fat for the season was 12} d. per lb. The whole of. the output of clieeso was sent Home on x>pen consignment, no cheese bcing_sold in itho Doriiinion. Both Wellington and London reports on quality were oreditable, fit 6 the'manager. During, tho year considerable additions were made to tho factory,'tho making-room now having suffi- ' -dent space to accommodate five vats, fl'he addition of a fourth vat was rendered Jsieccssary during the season, and the [directors anticipate that a fifth_ vat_ "\nll /be necessary for the supply- of milk likely !to be received during the coming season. The addition of a whey skimming plant lis now. under consideiation, and the comjmittee set up by the directors to inves"iiga'te tho matter'■ ■will"" report to the an"nnal meeting. It is anticipated that ouite 4 tons of batter can "be", extracted'from t the whey, and this will, without in any ■wa'v reducing the feeding value of the •whey, add at least. .£2OO per annum to the credit of profit and loss account. jUessrs. l Lawsou, Neilson, Huntley, lisle, 'fiiul Reid liave agreed to retire from tho 'directorate, but' arc eligible, and oner ■themselves for re-electioiu Messrs. Peters Jeml Benuiiison, who. joined the board ilast year," retain .their scat*.