The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921. CHEERING SIGNS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 599, 14 January 1921, Page 2

The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921. CHEERING SIGNS.

That increased production is becoming an accomplished fact is proved by the figures 'just published with respect to the output of butter and cheese from the Auckland district. These show that the quantity of butter received n the Farmers’- Freezing t Company’s stores for the past six months was 413,770 boxes, as compared with 235,349 boxes for the corresponding six months of the previous year. This is truly a wonderful record, and speaks volumes for the productivity of the Province. -At first slight, one might be apt to imag- 1 ine that this great increase was brought about through concerns which were previously manufacturing cheese, diverting their plants to the production of butter. While this is true in some instances, the astonishing fact remains that cheese for export also shows a big increase, 91,320 crates being received in Auckland during the past six months, as compared wftth 69,236 crates for the last half year of 1919. Thus even in cheese there is an. (increase of over 22,000 crates. Now what do these figures prove ? They prove conclusively that the dairying industry of the Dominion, and particularly Auckland Province, is being developed as never before. They prove that farmers are becoming business men and run their farms on up-to-date lines, keeping only the cow that gjivcs the maximum output for the minimum of fcc.ding. The figures also show that new country is being brought in, bush is being cleared, swamps drained, and what were once unproductive lands, made to ytfeld up wealth. All this means production, and production means prosperity. Reading the above figures, there should be little room for pessimism-as to the future of the dairying industry, though wc do not mean that the exercise of prudence by all classes of the community should not hold as excellent advice.

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