Dairy Produce.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2287, 4 March 1912, Page 3

Dairy Produce.

Confidence in the future of the butter and cheese market is shown by a Wellington firm in seeking to make contracts for the supply of butter-fat in certain localities and under certain conditions on the basis of Is Id per lb, contracts to run for ten years. Dairy farmers in the Manawatu district receive an average of Is 0-4 d per lb for butter fat during January. If to this (says the ' Post') be added the cast of manufacture, boxes, carriage, putting up into pats, and incidental charges, the butter will cost wholesalers la H-d per lb. Should this price for butterfat continue, that . for the hi tide in pound pats is pretty certrtn to rise. While prices of cheese in oversea markets keep us they are it is thought that the rates now paid for both butter and cheese in JS r e"- Zealand must increase, and that shortly, as it will pay dairy farmers hitter to concentrate their attention upon chetseniakiiig rather than on butter. (Jheese for export has buen sold and shipped last week at from u.|d to 1 per lb.