HIGHER BUTTERFAT YIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 5 August 1925, Page 4

HIGHER BUTTERFAT YIELDS.

HERDS SUPPLYING A FACTORY. 1555 COWS AVERAGE 266.8L8. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVTLLE, Tuesday. With the Dominion's average of butterfat per cow still' standing at about 1701b, great credit is certainly reflected upon the Motumaoho district where the suppliers to the Norfolk Co-operative Company have already been responsible fpr an average well beyond that to which even the New Zealand Co-operative Herd-testing Association aspires. During the past season the total number of cows supplying the factory was 1555, and these, on factory returns, gave an average yield of 266.81b of butterfat. During the previous season the average for approximately the same number of cows was 25641b. This was then considered remarkably good and few were prepared for such a large increase being shown in the average yield of thia season. THE COST OF LIVING. WHAT A POUND WILL BUY. According to the "Monthly Abstract of Statistics" issued by the Government, food prices (including groceries, dairy produce and meat) as at June 15 were 11 points lower than at the preceding date. The figures were 1597, showing a price level of nearly fifty per cent above that for Ju*/, 1914, viz., 1070. Expenditure on food constitutes less than 75 per cent of the total expenditure of the average New Zealand household. If all factors relative to the cost of living which the , Department recognises were taken into consideration it ■would be found that in June last prices were higher by 61.2 per cent than was the case in July, 1914. Dealing with the monetary aspect, it is calculated that if a sovereign in 1914 would buy twenty shillings' worth, it would, in June of this year, buy 12/ worth of groceries, or 13/5 worth of dairy produce, or 15/3 worth of meat, the average for the three groups working out at 13/4.