Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMB. 28, 1920. DAIRYING STATISTICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2182, 28 September 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMB. 28, 1920. DAIRYING STATISTICS.

SO imu-li attention Ims recently been directed to the dairying - industry in this country that a brief record of some of the salient points of its history since 1011 —the latest pre-war year for which complete official statistics are available —will no doubt prove of more than passing interest, says (lie Eltham Argus. In (hat year tin' number of dairy cows and heifers in iiie Dominion was given as 80-1,078, and the combined exports of butter and cheese amounted to 711,5(51 cwl., valued at .£2,778,748. The year 1014 brought with it a greatly-increased production and a much larger return, (he combined butter and cheese output for export being 1,207.848 cwl., valued at £4,01 0,!>82, in 1010 there was a slight falling off in production, the export output being 1,287,402 cwl., valued at £4,(it4,871. In 101 (i; alter a lapse of live years, the livestock census was again I a ken, and. disclosed thar the number of dairy cows and’heifers had fa lien to 700,828. Despite the smaller herds, the export output was nearly double in quantity and more than double in value of that in 1011, the exports amounting to 1,308.048 cwl.. valued :;i £0.11c,008. The subsequent Jiisiorv of the industry is one of stcad-

ilv increasing’ herds, and. save in

1017, of a successively large! - export output, while values have risen phenomenally. In 1017, when the dairy cows and heifers were numbered ul 777.112. tiie combined export of butler and cheese amounted to 1,140,118 cwl., valued at £5,080,802. In 1018, with 708,21.7) cows and heifers, the export was 1,811,408 cwl., valued at £7,480.501, and in 1010, with 820,185 cows and heifers. the export was 1,551.002 cwl., valued at ,£O,OO-1,32/. For the year eiiding dune 30th, 1020. the number of cows and heifers is approximately 882,850, and the export was 1,034.002 cwl., valued at £0,187,828. Between .1011 ami 1020 the number of cows and heifers lias increased by 0.8 per cent., tin* volume /if butter ami cheese production for export by 120.5 per cent., and the value of the produce exported by 230.7 per cent. In Hie same period, accepting the estimate of 1 lie Dairy Division’s expert, the value of < he dairy herds of tho Dominion has risen from £8,0.8u,000 to £l/,05/,080.