GOOD TIMES FOR FARMERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 12

GOOD TIMES FOR FARMERS

SUCCESSFUL DAIRYING SEASON PAY-OUTS FOR NOVEMBER (From Our Own Correspondent) MORRINSVILLE, Saturday. Dairy farmers in and around Morrinsville are enjoying a highly successful season. This is well illustrated by the returns for the various factories, which are as follow', the figures for November, 1927, being given in parentheses: — Morrinsville Pounds butter-fat, 309,092 (236,576); pay-out, Is 5Jd (Is 4d); distribution, £22,212 3s Id ( £13,512 4s 2d). Norfolk (Motumaolio) —Pounds milk, 1,463,394 (1,407,851); test, 4.07 (4.0); pounds butter-fat, 59,602.9 (56,422.6); pay-out, Is 6d (Is 6d); * distribution, £4.470 (£4,231 11s). Tatua—Pounds butter-fat, 107,719 (102,556); pay-out, Is 6d (Is sd); distribution, £8,078 (£7,264). Sunny Park (Te Poi) —Cheese: Pounds milk, 2,105,582 (1,588,380); test, 3.68 (3.65); pounds butter-fat, 77,614 (58,066.4); pay-out, Is 6d (Is sd); distribution, • £5,820 (£4,113). Butter: Pounds cream, 16,386 (62,784); test, 40.92 (40.43); pounds butter-fat, 6,705 (25,387); pay-out, Is 4d (Is-4ftd) ; distribution, £447 (£1,733). Hinuera—Pounds butter-fat, 168,703 (141,760); pay-out, Is 4d; distribution, £11,240 8s sd; total for season to date, £36,449 6s Sd. ON THE RANGITAIKI LAST YEAR’S FIGURES BEATEN (From Our Own Correspondent) WHAKATANE, Saturday. The Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company paid out £30,530 15s 7d to suppliers on December 20 for supplies of butter-fat for the paSt month. On December 20 last year the amount paid out was £26,704 19s 4d. The total paid to suppliers this year, as from July 1, is £91,445 4s 9d, while the amount paid out for the corresponding period last year was £70,358 3.7 s 6d. The quantity of butter manufactured this year from July 1 to the end of November was 777 tons 7cwt„ as against 603 tons 3cwt. for the corresponding period last year. FAT STOCK PRICES The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board advises that the following prices were being offered for fat stock for export at December 20: Hawke’s Bay.—Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and ijnder, lOd; 371 b to 421 b, 9ftd; 431 b and over, 9d; second quality lambs, 9d. Wellington.—Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under, lOd; 371 b to 421 b, 9ftd; 431 b and over, 9d; second quality lambs, 9d. Canterbury.—Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under, lOftd; 371 b to 421 b, lOd; 431 b and over, 9Jd; second quality lambs, 9ftd.