DAIRY REPORTS FROM IRELAND.

Otaki Mail, 29 December 1919, Page 4

DAIRY REPORTS FROM IRELAND.

CHEESE SOLD TOR 17.62 d TER LB. BUTTER 26.27 d PER LB. From the auditors’ report of the Devon Road Society we gather that the milk supply there, as nearly evcrwlicre else in Ireland, shows a decline. It was 670,557 gallons in .1916, and in 1918 it had declined to 0.19,3;>2 gallons. Obviously the prices paid by the Food Controller did not encourage farmers lo produce milk either for butter or cheese-making. The fault is not with ihe management. Last year the turnover was f-lAut'o, made up ot £39,426 butter sales, £19.298 cheese sates. £lll6 milk sales, £606 agricultural goods, and £6 mms. 90,071 gallons of new milk were converted into cheese. The society made 180.2701 b of butter, the average produce being 2.29 gallons per lb. The average price received for cheese was 17.6:91 per lb, and for butter 26.27 d. The average- price paid for milk was 11. Sod per gallon. TI7,S7SH> ul cheese were made.

Cheese Prices. At a very largely attended and representative meeting of the Irish Cheese Union held at Kyan’s Hotel. Limerick Junction, on Saturday, sth .I iilv, specially summoned to consider the action ol' tile -Ministry of Tood as regards the coni in eat ion ui control and proposed prices for English nnd Irish hard cheese, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:—-

1. That inasmuch as no adequate reason has been given, or is known to us to exist, for the proposed unfair differentia t ion agai list. Irish cheese, and that owing to lack of encouragement to Irish dairying in previous years, milk production is undergoing a steadyreduction, which is tending to undermine and eventually destroy the dairying and" cattle raising industry of the country:" this meeting cmphaticaliy protests against the -proposal to paylur the mouth of July only Is Sd per lb to the Irish makers for hard cheese, whilst paying 2s per lb to the English makers for equal grade and quality.

ii nd hereby- demands the same prices for Irish cheese as English makers obtain; or in the alternative to be allowed au absolutely- free market in Great Britain and abroad.

2. That the price of Caerphilly should be fixed on a parity with hard cheese, or otherwise a free market be allowed, both as to price and distribution.