NEW MARKETS FOR DAIRY PRODUCE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 20, 23 June 1911, Page 4

NEW MARKETS FOR DAIRY PRODUCE.

POSSIBILITIES OF EXPANSION.

Mr Mitchell, principal of one of the largest dairy produce firms (outside of London) in Great Britain, who has been in Australia for the past three months making arrangements for opening up new business between colonial cheese, butter, and bacon companies, and the headquarters of his own firm at Ayr (Scotland) believe that he will succeed in doing so. '' We have unlimited markets for Australian dairy produce in Glasgow and other large Scottish centres," he remarked to an interviewer. "In Scotland we get from London only the rag-tag of colonial imports. London firms take great exception to the accuracy of this statement, but, nevertheless, it is true. You may think in Australia that once you land your produce in London you have done all that is needed. That is a mistaken view. What you want in addition to existing facilities is a cargo service to the Clyde, to Liverpool, or some other port from which your produce can easily reach the great manufacturing and thickly-populated centres in Scotland, and also in Belfast and the east coast of England. There you will find splendid markets."

A good many of the farmers in the Geraldine district are uneasy as to winter feed, for the failure of turnips, owing to blight, has a serious aspect, and the young grass that has sprung up since the rains is likely to scour lambs, Moreover, the grass grub is doing a lot of mischief. At Belfield, one farmer has had to plough the whole of his paddocks, and in other places the grass is quite destroyed, while the grubs remain in the ground. Many are hoping for a severe winter to check the pests, but the grass grub will probably burrow and protect itself.