DAIRYING EXPORTS.
BIG INCREASE BUTTER PRODUCTION. THE ANNUAL FIGURES. The annual dairying returns for the past year, which ended on July 31 last, show a marked increase in butter production, due in large measure to the fact that pastoralists turned to dairying when the bottom dropped out of the wool and meat markets. The following figures show the actual quantity sent out of the grading stores for shipment during the dairying year, from August 1, 1920, to July 31, 1921: Butter. —630,894 ewt. (previous year, 281,161 cwt.L _ * Chee5e.—1,364,673 ewt (previous year, 1,387,693 cwt.). The quantities received into the stores for grading during the year were as follow: — Butter. —691,201 cwt. (previous year, 380,051). Cheese.—l,ll6,97o cwt. (previous year, 1,268,571). The fact that this, was less than the amount shipped was due. to the fact that there, was a big quantity in store in August, 1920, when the season opened. The amount in store at that date was estimated at, roughly, 350,000 cwt. THE PRESENT SEASON.
The figures for the present season, dating from August 1 up to November 30, mi, also show a large increase in butter production, and a corresponding falling off in the volume of cheese handled. The quantities sent out for shipment from the grading stores were-. Butter. —258,239 cwt. (corresponding four months of previous year, 98,445 cwt.). ■ Cheese. —248,147 cwt. (corresponding four months of previous year, 259,137 cwt.).
The quantities received into the stores for grading during the first four months of the present season were: 8utter.—336,325 cwt. (corresponding four months of previous year, 219,433 cwt.). Cheese.—3l4,l7s ewt. (corresponding four months of previous year, 359,156 cwt.). AMOUNT PASSED THROUGH CUSTOMS. The Customs returns reveal the fact that the following quantities were exported during the year dating from August 1. 1920, to July 31, 1921: 8utter.—638,670 cwt., valued at «8,- ' Cheese.—l,4-36,707 cwt., valued at £B,523.669. . , . The Customs figures from August 1 .o November 30 of the present dairying season were: — .a. 8utter.—175,037 cwt., valued at £l,853,743. , . . Cheese.—lBB.432 cwt. valued at
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1922, Page 8
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332DAIRYING EXPORTS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1922, Page 8
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