FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 245, 9 October 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

THE PAST DAIRY SEASON

THE COMMISSION KR\S KEl'ollT

Mr. Singleton regards the season as a highly profitable one. The consistently, good prices realised tended to compensate for the shortage of the supply of the supply of milk. It was unfortunate, he remarks, that Xe\v Zealand was not in a position to supply a maximum quantity when prices "ruled su high.

Notwithstanding the exceptionally unfavorable season, from a producti in point of view, ail increase in the total amount of butler and cheese exported took place, (i0,877'/2ewt in quantity a nd £I33,S'JB in value. The total export was 551,57(>ewt., valued at £2.3,38,1-11; against 48o,ti#8'/ 4 e\vt., valued at .£2,224,246 for the previous season. The buti ter export showed a decrease, being 259,90t)cwt,, a decrease of 40,3(i0</ s cwt. on the amount of the previous season. The chee«e export, on the other hana, showed a big increase, the quantity lining 291,«17cwt., an increase ol 115,238 cwt. on the previous figures. Some instructive tables are supplied showing the exports from the different ports and the proportion of the different grades. Taranaki easily leads the way in both butter and cheese. The figures of the packages shipped are as follows:

Butter Cheese Total.' Auckland 144,52!) 4,880 149,4')!' Taranaki 219,757 107,447 327.204 Wellington 127,172 36,139 163,311 Canterbury 10,189 0,4!)0 l(i, 085 Dunedin. 18,271 17,612 35,883 Bluff

At the Maketawa Dairy Company's annual meeting on Monday .Mr. Bridgcinan said lie thought some notice should be taken by dairy companies of the efforts the government was making to injure their industry by unworkable regulations, and with this view would move, "That in the opinion of this meeting of Alaketawa dairy farmers the proposed new dairy regulations are not wanted, and that, seeing that the farmers havfc built up the industry to its present level, they are quite eapa.ile o£ maintaining and improving it without Government interference." Mr. J. H. Dobroski seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously. In thanking the shareholders for the continued confidence shown by his reelection for the thirteenth year to the directorate of the ilaketawa Dairy Company, Mr. J. Brown said he had been in the company from its start, with nineteen shareholders, and had watched its regular growth until there were over' sixty, and irom the time when every penny of the money for building anl machinery was borrowed until tliere wasn't a shilling of borrowed money in the concern. Everything there w.is their own. and they had money ill the bank, and everything they made was their own, which was an excellent portion to be in.