The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1885. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1462, 23 September 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1885. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

An important notice to dairy] farmers and others will be found j elsewhere. In will be seen that the New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company, Limited, has set apart a cool-air chamber and other necessary space at their freezing works. Auckland, for the development of a wholesale butter trade, with a view principally to export, and the Company now offer a cash | market for all prime quality butter. I Mr T. D. Cummins, of Wanganui, has been appointed agent of tha Department for the districts on the West Coast, and will supply all information. He is now prepared to purchase for cash any quantity of butter of prime quality on behalf of the Company. As the advertisement states, this need for a regular outlet for the increasingly important item of produce has long been felt, and we have no doubt that the many farmers m the district will before long be receiving cash for their butter, arid experience the benefit of the improved condition of things m this respect, as compared with the barter system that has been only heretofore too prevalent. We understand that the Company will offer a remunerative price for a really good article, but none other will be purchased. It remains, to be seen whether under these altered conditions, and with the further developof the export trade, dairy farmingis to continue the unprofitable and discouraging industry that, m the ■ majority of cases, has been the experi ence of those who have engaged therein. We anticipate satisfactory results from the new order ot things, and trust our farmers will find it to their advantage to favorably consider the proposals set forth elsewhere, emanating fVom the Company referred to. Should it . turn out, as we expect it will, that the price offered for good butter is a remunerative one to the producers, a large trade may be expected to be done with the farmers m this district tn the disposal of a commodity which has almost come to be recognised as a drug m the market. There is no finer dairying district m the colony, but the want of a market has always hitherto been the great and apparently insuperable obstacle to successful results m a pecuniary sense. We nope to learn that many of our "farmers will open up correspondence with the Company's agent, Mr Cummins, of Wanganui, and that sudh will lead to an increased development of the dairying industry m these districts. A large circulation of money is certainly required to make business brisker m every branch, and If this is brought about by the sale of a product the supply of which is, practically speaking, unlimited, it means enhanced prosperity of the most legitimate and enduring character, m which all plasses of the community will share.