NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED TONS OF BUTTER.

Shannon News, 26 August 1921, Page 3

NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED TONS OF BUTTER.

SHANNON FACTORY’S OUTPUT LAST SEASON. , , SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. The Shannon Dairy Co. is at piesent installing anotner new cream vat, with a capacny 6i 10/ gallons, in order to cope with the exi/a supply 01 tins season. Some idea of the progress the dairying industry has iMiie in Shannon during the. last ten or twelve years can. be. gathered from the loliowln^ . figures: In 1907, the year the present dairy- company was formed, their output lor the season was 90 tons of butter. In 1910 it had increased to 170 tons, the price for butienat then being ..lOjjd, and they paid otlt to suppliers the sum of £14,271 14s Bd, and £7lB 18s 6d in wages. For the year just past, 455 tons of butter have been manufactured, and £113,097 18s 9d was paid to suppliers, being at the rate of 2s 8.40 d per lb lor fat.' The wages have amounted to £1745 17s 3d. If the output continues to increase atthe same rate as it has done in the past, and there is every indication that it will, the output within ten years "will reach 1000 tons of butter annuajfry.