9000 More Tons Of Cheese Is Expected As Taranaki's Output

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 28 (Supplement)

9000 More Tons Of Cheese Is Expected As Taranaki's Output

Assuming that one cheesemaking vat requires the milk of 300 average dairy cows, then, the 44 additional vats now added to the factories of the northern half of Taranaki because of the changeover from home separation will cater for the supply of 13,200 cows. One vat of milk will average, approximately, 80 tons of cheese over a normal season. Therefore, the 13,200 cows, whose milk fills these extra vats, will result in— 80 x 44, or 3520 tons of extra cheese. Unless some disaster in the form of a prolonged drought or a bitterly cold autumn strikes Taranaki, this 3520 tons will be the amount of additional cheese that the home separators within the area will contribute to the war effort. Add to this an estimate of between 700 and 800 extra tons from South Taranaki, and the smaller factories whose new supply will be relatively small, then the fact of the change-over should result in at least 4400 tons of more cheese produced this season. Statistics have shown, that, because of the more favourable weather experienced throughout the winter and spring, factories that have received no stimulous

I to their output through a change-over, are to date turning out as much as 20 | per cent. more cheese than was the case last year. Reducing this 20 per cent, by half to make allowances for any set-back yet to come, and it will be seen, that, from Taranaki alone, a considerable portion of the expectation levied on the Dominion ,-s a whole is already assured. Looked at from another direction, the excellent response made by homeseparators to the call for cheese. represents an 18 per cent. advance on the 19,341 tons of cheese produced last yea'r in the northern half of Taranaki. With 10 per cent. added as the expectation of the benefit of better weather and better feeding, this area will increase its output of cheese by the conservative estimate of 28 per cent. South Taranaki's estimate may not be so pronounced because it has always been a cheese area, but over the whole province, the present position warrants the calculation of about 22 pir cent. increase or over one-fifth greater cheese production than was attained last year In a normal season this will produce in the vicinity of 9000 extra tons of cheese. Well done Taranaki.