THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Shannon News, 24 December 1926, Page 3

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

DECEMBER ADVANCES REVIEWED HIGH QUALITY OF PRODUCE. Advance payments to suppliers by dairy companies in the Manawatu and surrounding districts show a slight increase over last month. This is probably not as big as factory directors would have liked to make it nor dairy farmers would have liked to see it. Taking advances all round they are certainly very fair considering the low payments made by the Board, and are about one penny per lb. butterfat higher i,han last month. , Enquiries made of various dairy company secretaries and factory managers show that supplies and .outputs vary considerably in different districts. While some factories are well up to last year’s productions; others are not.

and in no instance appears: there to be anything like the increased outputs reported from the Taranaki and Auckland districts. Many farmers in the Manawatu district are still suffering from the effects'of the late flood; while the wet season generally has not been favourable for .dairying oU- heavy rich or clayey land. At the same time, exceptional yields are reported individual farms where soil Conditions favour a wet season.

The most outstanding feature of the present season, however, is the exceptionally high quality of butter ; and cheese sent to the grading stores. ’ At the monthly [meeting of the Awahuri Dairy Company, for instance, it was stated that / the average grading for 90 tons of finest butter was 95.102 for

the past month, ’figures which are indicative also of the quality of other factories in the district. , . , With a view of giving an indication as to. the impotant part the dary industry plays in the prosperity of the \Manawatu-district the “Times” -has obtained from a few well-known dairy companies (the aggregate amounts to be'paid to their suppliers on December 20th, for November supply of milk and cream. The Cheltenham Dairy Company, which pays 1/3 per lb. but terfat, .will distribute over £23.000.: The Awahuri Dairy Company at 1/2 per lb, butterfat will pay out a little short of £II,OOO. The onannon Dairy Company’s total payment at 1/2 per lb: butterfat amount to £10,200, whilst the Kairanga Dairy Company at 1/2 distributes nearly £9OOO. 1 v The following is a list of advances made by the various companies in the district for milk and, cream supplied during the month of November:— Tia kitahn uaD.Co. bgk/b yeeo/ e Butter Cheese Awahuri Rairy Co. 1/3 ■, ■

Bainese Dairy Co. — • 1/2 Cheltenham D. Co. .1/3 — Kairanga D. Co. .1/2 Levin Dairy Co. 1/2 — N. Z. Dairy Union 1/2 , —- ■ Palm Dairy 1 Co. 1/3 —r Rangiotu D. Co. ■ — 1/1 Shannon D. Co. 1/2 ■ 1 Tokomaru D. Co. i ■ - ■ 1/2 Tiakitahuna D. Co. — . 1/3