Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43341, 23 June 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

BUTTER AND CHEESE

u Trade Review ” quotes a private letter from Canada, from one a very prominenFposition the, Dairy Trade there, and is thoroughly in touch with the trade ” He 'gives it as his opinion that pahada. “ will not have more than to, supply the Canadian demand, and a further reduction in the quantity of cheese made is likely t° : take.place.” In 1907 the Canadian butter sold in the United Kingdom was as mnch as 292,117 cwt., but in 190 reduced to 34,753 cwt., and-UtjlS •. *?. on the cards ’’ that she . foye to import some New Zealand butter, (she is already comsuming a little). In cheese, she contributed last year’ 71 per cent, of the entire import ; ;.:but if her exports are much reduced, this will effect prices in London, and materially affect our trade. -

. DuriUglast week 200 boxes, or five tons, .of .butter were shipped from Audkland to South Africa, and the quantity received in store during the week was-430 boxes. It is probable that as a result of the existence of dairy factory workers’ unions, factory managers will form an organisation of , their own. By this means, it is considered the business of

factory manufacture of butter and cheese will be/placed on a much more ..BatwSgptory footing.

Thp per cow at the Weraroa btate Farm shows a very marked increase compared with the figures of some 'years ago. In December, 1904, the monthly yield per cofr was 6061 b,. the gross yield of the herd, -117 cows, being 71,0051 b

per month. Last December 97 cows yielded 72,9071 b, or an average of 10881 b per cow. This increase, is due -to judicious culling ana purchase,

r.' which has gradually improved theBtandard of the herd. The Govern ment has arranged to send the whole of the milk to the Fresh Food and Ice Company,- Wellington. |This company is delivering the milk to the public in ■ pint and quart bottles, which is the system strongly advocated by the health authorities. V. -U " / t ?'