FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 301, 16 December 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

BIiJTAIXS LAITOKXS. Canada's cheese exceeds Denmark's butler in weight, for it represents only half the quantity of milk. Denmark sends JSritain practically as much butter in her winter as in her summer. What ji contrast again does this afford to the New Zeiiland experience, wnere we cannot produce enough butter for our own local needs. The stall-feeding which goes on in Denmark, with its cow testing and milk testing, its enormous reserves of fodder and grain foods, stud its tine balance Ibctwcm milk yield and food allowance per cow', pre quite unknown in Xew Zealand conditions. There is a small sign that Denmark is aiming to produce still more winter butter, and if this tendency should progress it will affect Xew Zealanders keenly. It is the Danish butter, in winter as well as in summer, that conies ehielly into competition with the butter of New Zealand. Remember that there lias just .been a. phenomenally mild autumn and phenomenal quantities of winter fodder put by, and then ask if it is reasonably possible to anticipate any scarcity of butler in the British market this season. The negative answer stares one in the face. Willi such a season as is recorded t Home one can almost fear lest Denmark's output may this winter go almost up to the top line. Denmark's summer output in the live years lias shown a slight average decrease, but her winter output has cor respoiulingly increased. (She is beginning more and more to come into competition with-the imports from the Southern hemisphere, Russia's increase has been rapid, both in summer and in winter, but the quantity is 100 per cent, greater in summer. Except in stored butter it may, perhaps, be long before Kussia all'eets lw nm -h w j(], ],„,. w j lltl!1 . output. But Kussia's summer butler last season was half as much as thai li'oni Denmark, and the increase is very rapid. As Russia crowds upon Denmark's summer market, Denmark may be expected to strive more and more :o concentrate her output into the winter season in competition with Australasia. Xone of the otlier countries have in recent years made an increased bid for the British winter market, and from all these others the total quantity imported has diminished. The race is'between Denmark, Russia, ami Australasia. Canada is more prominent, in the cheese industry than Denmark is in butter, her competitors are fewer and smaller. Last year, for the first time m I'er existence, .Now Zealand became the second clieese-exporhng country of the world. Jlcr output--,5.>411 tons—was greater than that of any other country except Canada .luring the live years I ,'', s, '" s "," *''"' Zealand's output of " "'' ;!'"' '■ h ""- "'ill almost 'surely ■eat all previous records. Although' Canadians are inclined to regard X?w /'■aland as a rival too small to hurt mem it ~ not an insignificant fad that our last season's ,-hecse output was quite one-sixth that of Canada, and the increase is continual and rapid Our dairy farmers just now want to know o what extent the fabulous - eesof he lew famous weeks of last s ason will have induced the Danes and otlier countries to increase their butter output this coming season, and the answer to this question has yet to bo disclosed.—Dominion.

hor November milk llawera Dairy ompany will pay out this month £Osll "sM, «l tli, rate of Is per lb. of butMells -t1'4.02 12 S ; 1( )d, at 10(1 , Mp!)s Company manufactured 18% tons of butter and Normanby about 20 tons.-

It is unsatisfactory ( s ays a contemporary) to learn that the moisture of '»»■ butters shows an indication ol . .einnr increased to a point above the | "ntish |,.g ;1l , lmit (( , sixU , (>n ce])ti _ ''«'■ largely, no ,101,1,1, to the extended iise ol (h,. combined churn, the great factory labor saver, but a source of coiisiderabe temptation to increase the <mir-nin above a safe percentage. This tendency has necessitated the Department extending its supervision over the water content. Last season all butter passing through, the Moturoa Freezing Works at I'lymoutli was analysed for moisture and this season butters 1»'"'« shipped through the Wellington grading stores will also be subjected to analyses by an ellicer of the Chemical Division. This is not before it was le'ju.red as New Zealand butter has undoubtedly lost tlic enviable reputation it once enjoyed of being the driest and purest butter going on the London market.