Producers’ Association.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 25 December 1914, Page 3

Producers’ Association.

* We have received from tli Bristol and Dominion Producer Association, Ltd., a map of NeZealand showing ali the butte id and cheese factories, as well a o- the freezing works tha te have been established to date, s- The map has been compiled b; Mr H. G. Hill, the General Mans ger for New Zealand, who is h u . be congratulated on having pro c duced so complete and clear ; record of the position of tin j various factories and works A study of the llfep reveal: j many points of interest. Th< " butter and cheese factories an I marked by red dots, the freezing J works by black ones, each on< being numbered, and lists, show . ing the names of the various ” factories with the Provincial j. district in which they are situated, together with their re-pec-j tive outposts are supplied. Thus, . a few minutes study of the map [ and lists will give one a better , idea of the magnitude of the |. dairying and freezing industries , than hours of reading. It is remarkable to notice how the red dots are crowded round ' the Taranaki Peninsula, along , the railway between Wanganui and Wellington, between Napier and Wellington and in the southern portion of Otago. In some places Ihey are so close together that sufficient room cannot be found for them, and in some cases, one dot has ■ to stand for as many as seven factories. In the Auckland Province the factories are more scattered and in all probability they will never be as numerous as in Taranaki and Wellington, net because Auckland is not a dairyingcountry, but because, under the system of home-separation, fewer skimming stations are required, most of the farmers doing their own skimming, and railing the cream to the factories to be turned into butter. Taranaki, Wellington, and Otago had a great dairy output before Auckland began to take itself seriously as a dairying province, and under the old system it was necessary to establish creameries and factories much closer to the sources of milk production than under the new system, hence the great number of factries in these provinces. It is somewhat difficult to compare the output of the two provinces, because Taranaki produces more cheese, while Auckland produces more butter, but reckoning a ton of cheese to be a little more than half as valuable as a ton of butter, we find that the output from Auckland is only 17 p>r cent bellind that of Tar : Nhere are other points of interest to be found in this very instructive map which cannot be dealt with here, but anyone in—terested in farming would gather much interesting information from a study of the map and the lists snnnli.wl vvitli i!