DISTRICT DAIRYING.

Shannon News, 18 January 1927, Page 3

DISTRICT DAIRYING.

THE MONTH'S PAY-OUTS. A' provision under t the Government cream grading regulations is that any cream under the butter-fat test showing less than 35 per cent, must be paid for at the rate of |d per pound less than would othewise be the case in its' particular grade. That is to say, that while cream is now graded primarily on its butter-fat content, there is yet a penalty for supplies which are deficient in butter-fat. This month, says the Standard, the New Zealand Dairy Union is advancing Is 2|d for "finest'' cream supplied for butter manufacture. The advance for "first grade" is Is 2d and for ••second grade" Is Id. The figures for the Awahuri Company, to further illustrate the basis of payment, are: Is 3d, Is 2*d, Is lid. - ' Avances for December supplies, giving the top price in each case, are as

AWAHURI FACTORY'S SUCCESS. At the last monthly meeting of directors of the Awahuri Dairy Company it was reported that a further record had been established during December, when the make of butter for the •month approximated 95 tons of finest grade. The average grading for the month was 95.191, the highest figure being 90 and the lowest 94 —a record of which the shareholders!, suppliers, and manager may well be proud. It was further reported at the meeting that almost all the butter manufactured during the present seas-on was finest grade, there having been only three occasions when the grade was below that standard and then .only from one to one and n-half points down.

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