DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10714, 25 October 1912, Page 4

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

In an interesting article in the current issue of the Journal of the Department- of Agriculture on "Dairying in Europe," Mr J. Pedersen, who is at present investigating the industry abroad on behalf of the New Zealand Gorernment, says:—"The prospects of butter in Europe liar® never fcee* so good. Germany is every year increasing her edJJSirsjpH'y* f>ffW£r.

and. 1 believe, will in the near future be a good easterner for New Zealand butter.' Certainly, there is a duty of Id a pound on butter entering Germany, but the retail prioo is invariably lug her than on British markets. /Ys there is 110 duty on cream, Danish skimming stations on the border are increasing their shipments of cream to German butter factories. Germany is also absorbing more Sil>orian butter. Tho population of Germany, it may bo remarked, is increasing at the rate of a million boulh a year. Ten years ago Germany was exporting butter; to-day she-is importing nearly four times as much as the total export of New Zealand. Tho tendency of Germany is nlso the tendency of several other Continental countries. France, Italy, and even Switzerland cannot meet/ the demands of their own consumers. All this points to tho fact that 'butter values will bo woll retained in the future, and that New Zealand dairy farmers can have every confidence in establishing tho business of milk production on a more permanent basis. As long as quality is maintained. New Zealand butter has a splendid future before it."