FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 297, 10 December 1908, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

The following is the result of November operations at the Kakaramea dairv ac'torv: Sixty-one suppliers eontrimilk, which contained oMw.olb butter-fat, from which was "Hide !)1,3101b commercial butttr, showing an overrun of 1-2.,33. Tests range V- 0 , 1 , 1 - 1 ,, U ' 3.54. It toek 20.0,1b milk to fake lib butter. The sum of £3381 10,s 2d will be required to pay the month's milk cheques ■tor milk supplied during the month of. November Riverdale Dairy Company will pay out on the 20tli inst. £4330 Us. Over 2!4 million pounds of milk were received, and 336,1MU1b of diceswere manufaetured. Tile average test was _a bout 3.7. Cheques ranged from £227, £IOB, ,£172, to small amounts, £8V IVL ' ra ° e I,Cr SUl>l ' lier k ' in S abtml Shippers of dairy produce will be •s 1 a titled to learn that according to a cable received by the National Dairy As- . sociation from its Loudon representative, Mr. C. Maekie, on Monday, "there is a much better demand for butter, which seems to have touched bottom, and that cheese, though quiet, is expected to recover soon." Speaking to a New Zealand Times reporter on"the recent unexpected fall in butter, .Mr. .1. ' (!. Ilarkness, secretary of the Association, said that the position had been all the more remarkable in view of the advice cabled from London merchants only a month ago recommending factories to manufacture butter instead of cheese. It is contended in some quarters that the position was the natural outcome of a "bear" movement on the part of a certain speculative section of. the London trade; but Mr. darkness points out. this is hard to understand. 1 in view of the fact that fully seven- ' eighths of the factories have sold outright. Mr. fl. 11. Stales lias been giving his impressions of a trip through Siberia ' to the. Wellington Dominion. In speakin.' of Siberian butter, be says:—"With a view to showing her position and indicating her possibilities with regard to butter, it may be as well to put some ligures concerning her transactions, saj. with the English market, side bv side with those of this country, and it will probably be held that the result is not altogether unsatisfactory so far as the latter country is concerned to-day. In tin' year 11)00 the quantity stated to 1 have been imported into the I'niteil j 1 Kingdom from Russia was 20!t,738cwt; I from New Zona hi nil the total quantity exported was 172.383ewt. For the yar lOOti, Xew Zealand had nearly doubled her output, which showed a total of :!3o,(M(icwt. Against this, however. Russia, notwithstanding that for two years she had been engaged in the Japanese war, had increased her supply to (ir-eat Britain by nearly 43tl,000ewt. making the total for the year 057,(1411 cwt; whilst this increase enormously exceeds our own, both proportionately and in- the aggregate, it must be borne in mind that the cheese output from this country bail increased by over KlO.OOOcwt. .Still, the figures, with the possibilities they suggest, are entitled to some consideration by the people of this , country, considering the enormous scope . which there is for development in Russian territory and the enormous prices | being ipaid for dairying land in New Zea- , land." ,