CHEESE FACTORIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1618, 26 January 1886, Page 2

CHEESE FACTORIES.

.Now that our district dairy factories are putting their products into the market, any information regarding the price of cheese is eagerly ' sought for. We 5 learn from a southern exchange that at the great annual cheese fair m Cheshire, held m the end of October lasti '■ there Avas an immense pitch of cheese shown.; .There was an advance m price all round of quite ss' per "cwt," in ' sympathy with the rise m price of American cheese! The prize dairies ,^fa(3:'«how cheese : naturally sold! for higher, prices than the, oheese m the saleyard adjacent. , The first prize cheese m. the district class sold for 90s per cwt. First and second prize cheese m other classes realised from 80s to 90s. At the sale prime cheese fetched from 60s to 90s ; medium 45s to 50s ; and common 80s to 40s per cwt. This is good news for our dairy factories. The Wyndham (Otago) Dairy.. Factory sold twenty -five tons, delivered fat ?the local railway station, at ithe we understand,- of 6d* p°er ib? consideration the price realised for the whey, the tnareinan 100 ton,s pfcheesej —the anticipated output of, this factory this season— should leave' something; handsome for the shareholders, on- the capitaly subscribed, namely 10s" m the &. The shares number 8000 ..at 20s 'each. We (Mataura Ensign) learn that the offer for delivery of an additional ten tons of oheese at 5Jd was refused.