DAIRY FACTORY FIGURES.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 483, 25 October 1923, Page 4

DAIRY FACTORY FIGURES.

MORRINSVILLE RETURNS. Good Supplies Maintained. The prospects for this dairying season continue to appear very encouraging. Most of the factories are now working at full capacity to cope with the continually increasing supplies. The grass is now coming away well, and there appeal's (o be plenty of i'eed in the pastures. In two out of three cases under review there have been increases in supplies during the past month, as against a similar period last year, but a decrease in the advance payments to suppliers has been noticed, while in the other case the supplies have been less but the payments so much greater that the suppliers have found themselves much belter off with less production. The following are the figures for September of this year, the figures for September, 1922, being given in parentheses:— TATUA. Milk, 1,47G,G121b (1,460,7041 b); butter-fat, 52,2331 b (51,5981 b); payment at Is 4d (Is sd), £3482 4s (£3655 5s Cd); average test, 3.5 (3.5). MORRTNSVILLE. Butter-fat, 50,5391 b (45,8681 b); payment at Is 4id (Is 9d), £3476 8s 8d (£3969 7s sd). NORFOLK. Milk,. 925,9941 b (972,8971 b); butterfat, 35,5411 b (39,009.61 b); payment at Is 9d (Is sd), £3109 16s 6d (£276* 12s 2d); average test. 3.9 (4.0). N