THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1917, Page 5

THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

KXCELLENT PROSPECTS TOE TBJI SEASO.V, ■ . , •■4 THE CGXCESTIOX OVERCOME. ; Those interested in the dairy iiiJua- 1 try in Taratutki--and who is not?—will be pleased to learn that the congestion :■ oi dairy produce, wiiicli assuming. such a serious aspect and causing 1 dairymen considerable concern, particularly] from n financial aspect, is now within) - reasonable reach of being overcome* Mr. A. Morton, chairman of the Tara." naki Producers' Freezing Company atj • Moturoa, informs the Xews that advtca Sins been received that 11,500 crates of cheese will be shipped by the CorinnSl next week for (transhipment to a lioma liner at Wellington. This will coin- - plctel.v clear all the cheese that has had" > to be placed in temporary storage, and! < will also considerably ease the congeß* lion at the works. " I This dearance is undoubtedly duo toi the fact that arrangements hare been completed to sell the cheese to the Im- ■ pi-rial Government at per lb. Tha whole of the negotiations in connection with the sale have been conducted on behalf of the producers by the Advisory i Committee, through the National Dairy Association and their London agent (Mr. Ellison) direct with the Imperial Board ■ of Trade. 1 The price, remarked a well-known' dairyman lo a Xews representative, can* not but be considered very satisfactory to the producer. At a safe estimate cheese factories will pay out Is fl'/ 3 d to Is 10,1 per lb butter-iat, after payment of the %d per lb levy, and despite the in;rea>(:d V>st of manufacture (rennet . ha.-, advanced from l!j s to til') per keg). Kline factories will he able to pay out % liighfv figure, and they will be assisted by t!ie high price realised for whey but-

ter, one South Taranaki factory having realised for its whey butter 2008, : factories that are manufacturing buttor together with the skim-milk- byproduct casein should do erjually as well, if not better than, cheese factories, that y i-, provided the price of butter continues \ ai its present high level. There has I been a slight drop lately owing to tho arrival of shipments', and another heavy shipment may cause a further drop. Oseiu is a most valuable by-product, being equal to 4d per lb butter ; fat, and with further uses being found for, it each year it is likely to become more valu- - :ih)e. Those factories, in Taranaki tlilit wore enterprising enough to install plants in the pioneering days of the •, industry are now reaping the benefit. This year the high price has tempted other "factories to manufacture casein, and it is probable that next spring will find nearly every butter factory seriously ioi!S : dering the matter, together with the question of establishing a co-opera-tivo drying plant for Tarauaki, so that' . the farmer can obtain the full value of the by-product. With the prospect of suppliers to butter factories receiving higher pay-outa th.iii the cheese factories, some representatives of the latter consider it is rather an anomaly that a tax should be levied on their butter-fat and distributed amcng butter factory suppjiera,