The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 NORTH ISLAND AND DAIRYING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 November 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 NORTH ISLAND AND DAIRYING.

Ok the great importance of maintaining the dairying industry of .New Zealand unimpaired all observers are convinced. But all (hat the dairying industry really means to this dominion is not so widely grasped as the main fact (of its importance) is. A help towards realising the tremendous bearing it has upon iS'ew Zealand's prosperity is an article in the Year Book for I.SJLU, advance sheets of which are now in our oihee. This article remarks that it may be said with every confidence that there is more butterfat produced to the acre on many farms in this part of the dominion than on any iHjual area in the world when it is considered that all the food provided for the stock is produced on the farm itself. Within a radius of twenty miles (T.f the township ol: Ell-ham the value of the dairy produce manufactured in the year is just on £2,000,000. One of the chief factories, that of Kaupokonui, said to be the largest cheesemannfaeturim>' plant in the world, turned out last season 4,c522,720]1> of cheese and 199,:J001b of butter manufactured from the butter-fat

saved from the residual whey. Some idea of Hie expansion of the dairying industry, for whirl) flic iSTorth Island is mainly responsible, may be gauged from I lie fact thai, the value of the export of butter and cheese in 1800 was £207,G57: in 1900. £909,71:;: and in 1910, £'••!,007..'M5, while for the year 1912 it was £■'!,."09,202. In the year I<S9l the number of caitle in the dominion was S-iI ..S-Sl. In 1911 the herds had increased to 2,020,171 an increase of lb! ]>er cent.