MILES OF BUTTER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 162, 16 January 1914, Page 2

MILES OF BUTTER.

Year's Make at Pukekohe.

4,405,1831bs This Season.

It is season been a splendid cne for grass, and with tha exparsicn in dairying an ea-y record in butter production in this district will be established.

"Since 1890, sail the factory manager (Mr Morris) to tne writer, "there has b:en a worderful change. At that tim# it was a mighty big thing to make a ton of butter in a day in the middle of the season. This year we have cone as much as 12 tons 7 cwt. in a day." FIELD OF OPERATIONS. The Ne>? Zealand Dairv Association's tutter factory in Pukekohe is <;ne of the Dominion's big points of industrial interest. It is the centre to which the product comes from thirty-two creameries. These creameries cover a radius of 20 miles away to the north at I'apatoetcc, 20 miles to the south at Maramanu, 25 miles to the west at Kohc Kohe, and 8 miles to the east at Paparata. A PHENOMENAL INCREASE. Expressed in pounds weight the comparative makes for 1912 and 1913, for the months of July to December, were as follows: 1912. 1913. •July-August 259,269 279,429 September 399,77-! 423,806 Ociober 569,544 621,283 November 630,533 6H2.555 December 63«,760 694,684 2.497,879 2,704,757 Up to the end of December there were 92 ti?a scwt. 3qrs 131 bs more butter mad; this year tr.an was produced f r the corresponding period last seas:n. Judging from present prospects i' n expect.d that there will Le 130 ton 3 more for the tea?cn of 1913-1914 than there was for 1912-1913. In view oT the opposition by other rrothods of butter-factory work thU increase at the Association's factory ca- nly be regarded as phenomanel. MILKS OF BUTTER. It is estimated that thisTycar's make will yield 1,405,1831b5, Housewives who csnnot think i:i millions may be interested in viewing this vast bulk in another form. If the pounds of bu'ter we have on our tablea were pieced end on e:d along the railway line, the block of butter in pound bulk would reach from Auckland down through Pukekohe, past Mercer, Huntly, away past Hamilton, over the King Country, Taumaranui, over the spiral railway, on through Ohakune and away to Marton in the Rangitikei district. Arrived there, there would still bs a big sup; ly en hand. One could go on laying these bricks of butter through Feeding and into Palmerston North. Ard even then one would sti'l have butter left to make another line of it nine miles long! And all theee pounds of butter will be manufactured at the Pukekohe factory during this single season. End on end, in pound lots, the line would stretch over 347 miles!