Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4411, 15 May 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

3HT FUTURE FOR CHEESE. (*rrs t he nlmc st certain, that in nttrse of a few years, the cheoseng Industry will he much more ounced ,i n New Zealand than it is resent (writes a correspondent') e are spyeral reasons why this Id be. New Zealand is practfa the only country which has no t outside competition when it is ing cheese. Thpn, again, only 5 jenfc. of the total British oonsumpof cheese comes fiom this counButter and ro°at are c »mparsy much dearer than is chept-e in t B itain. and the poorer classes i will always eat bread and cheese i possibly butter and meat are rded as luxuries The foregung rpasons why the pric9 of Now and chepse keeps up. With re ice to the price itse’f, it is generwell’known by prncticil dairythat 6 1 16d per pound for ehepse -eat Britain is pqual to Is 3d par id for butter in the same country, as hpen.e’a‘ed that 23 pounds of : will .make one pound of butter, ?5 pounds would be nearer the k. A well known butter maker ;d in support of this proposition , whpn it was declared that 23 ids of milk would make a p und Sutter, farmers could generally me that the test, had been gged ”to bring about this result, very evident that the almost conis excellent prices which had d for past years in the chee.e kefc are bringing about a change pinion as to its safety as a paying istry More cheese factories are 9 opened in Taranaki, while one probably be started at Newma' e ■ Eke'ahuna another at Ptripirh Dannevirko. and still another far from Fahiatua,