CAMBRIDGE DAIRYING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 4

CAMBRIDGE DAIRYING.

Despite the fact that during the present dairying se«»on in this district one of the worst droughts ov«r a period of twenty .rears «ras experienced, the results are highly satisfactory. As is only to he expected. less butterfat was supplied the two local companies, but this was counterlmlanced by the higher payments made, as compared with the previous season. Prom June 1 to March 31 the total amount of money distributed among district dnirv farmers was_ £211,486 2/11. as against £177.140_ 16/7 for the corresponding period the previous year, an increa-se in favour of the present season of £34.445 6/4. The Cambridge Co-op. Co. during the season p«ld out to its suppliers the sum of £183,250. a-s against £149.000 last ye<ir, while the Brunt wood Cheewv Co. advanced to Its suppliers a total of £28.336 2/11. as against £2.8.140 16/7 Inst year.

To restore old King Cotton to his throne, 75 women at Charlotte, Canada, have forsaken silk stockings and underwear. In a pledge to the Johnston Manufacturing Company, by whom they are employed, the women have sworn out of loyalty to their employers to wear only hose and underwear made of cotton. In the making of a telephone receiver there are employed aluminium, silk, copper, rubber, flax, nickel, mica, shellac, lead, cotton, silver, iron, wool, platinum/ zinc, and gold.