Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1911. DAIRY PRODUCE.
An article on New Zoalan,(J butter from the Mercantile (lazettc, reproduced in yesterday's Age, provides food for serious thought. In it was ■ pointed out the fact that there is 110 prospect of the butter from this country, or any other country south of the Lino, which takes forty days to deliver, ever reaching tne level of values of Danish butter, which is delivered fresh daily on the London market-. The competition that affects New Zealand is thai?. of Australia, Argentine and Siberia, and as the butter from these countries improves in quality the difference in prices that now rules between them and New Zealand will be less clearly defined., t-o the detriment of this country. Butter .manufactured- at factories from' the whole milk is—other - things being equal—always top in quality. 571(iera'tome, separation liars- to be resorted to (on account of the ■distance being too great to cart the whole milk) the butter is not so good, for reasons that experts can readily explain. On account of New Zealand's closer population in farming districts, due to farms being small in area, they have the advantage of their opponents, who
luvve to resort to home separation. That, fact, however, will not guar- , an tee New Zealand a payable price 1 for lier butter when the supplies of Danish butter are heavy. As the quality of butter from Siberia, Argentine and Australia improves and increases in quantity, so the price for "Now -Zealand" will decrease, «I as the supply will exceed tho dein and. What 'can New Zealand do to better her prospects in the future? The only solution to this is in substituting cheese for butter. The competition in this article with the other dairying countries can never bo as great as it is with butter, for the reason that cheese must be made from whole milk delivered by suppliers to a factory within ths limit of a six mile, or not much greater, radius. As the farms in all these opposition, countries are f;.r larger in area than : the average New Zealand dairy farms, it stanis to reason that New Zealand would be in the best position as a maker of cheese. Already the New Zealand cheese exported to Britain has reached, and in fact has ..ctuall.v exceeded, the price paid' ill "'-. it,' market for Canadian cheese. The it-ime is fast arriving when Can.i la will cease exporting dairy prod't;e, owing to her increasing homo «>.- inand, and there is no reason why New Zealand should not take I.er place in supplying this partis,i'ar commodity. If this can be bro.u'it about the local manufacturers ot cheese will have to take a further leaf out of Canada's book, and market the whole of their output'throug h one channel. This, however, a matter that "can be considered u 1 a later stage. First ■of; all' farmers must oe educated to provide what is wanted for a never-failing ir<n vket., New Zealand has depart, nc its of agriculture, 'trade and' *o»n in n-eo capable of grappling .with' this gr-;ut subject, w h.c-h is of vital importa .100 to the 111 Lure of dairying in Now Zealand. Farmers should' look ,n this direction for guidance, as ihc-o departments are established du-d thin their interests.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10183, 8 March 1911, Page 4
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