DAIRY PRODUCE
i United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, Nov. 12
Sir John Russell, agricultural expert, gave a luncheon at Savoy Hotel. J lie guests included Sir James Parr. Russell, describing the recent tour declared New Zealand’s natural conditions wei'O unexcelled for dairying. Two matters to which attention should he directed are firstly a reduction in the price of land and secondly an improvement of the productivity of individual cows. New Zealand butter, because the standard was very strictly maintained, was most popular in Britain. A recent conference of British milk suppliers, called to consider over production, rejected a proposal to establish a butter factory because “everybody prefers New Zealand butter. Jho selling organisation returned to the New Zealand farmer 75 to 80 per cent, of the price paid in England, but the English dairy farmer received f»0 ( per cent, of the price for his milk, ten miles from the farm.
New Zealand’s exjKM’imental farms were doing valuable work and should receive every assistance from the Government.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1928, Page 5
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