FORTUNE FAVOURS N.Z. DAIRYING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 13

FORTUNE FAVOURS N.Z. DAIRYING

Climate is Better Than In Australia A VISITOR'S VIEWS (Ehom Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Saturday. "The dairy farmer of New South Wales is at an initial disadvantage compared with the New Zealand producer in the matter of climatic conditions," said Mr. L. G. Ashton, editor of the Primary Producer and a member of the, New South Wales farmers' party which visited Hamilton this week. Mr. Ashton, who was forrnerly farming at Te Kawa, said that although the greater number of dairying distriets in New South Wales received rainfalls much above those of New Zealand farming areas, the fall was not so evenly distributed and droughts still presented a problem. He pointed out that, where temperatures on some New South Wales dairy fafms ranged as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the minimum temperatures were nOt as low as those experienced in New Zealand. Mr. Ashton said that, while Austrxlian faritrers regarded the guaranteed price syStem as purejy an internal affair, they were very eager to study the methods by which New Zealand dairy • produce was offered overseas. Every opportunity of studyiug the system had been given to the visitors by the authorities in Wellington. The speaker said that New South Wales farmers would like to see a system of co-operation adopted between the two countries in the interests of the dairying industry. In Anhtralia the industry had developedi Steadily during recent years, and in a normally good season the country would export between 100,000 and 120,000 tons of bu.tter, Fodder conservation and grassland management were receiving closer attention in order to prepare for dyy periods and the belief that the country would never suffer so severely in the event of a drought, unless it was of a very protracted nature, as it had done in the past two seasons, appeared to be fully warranted,