THE WEATHER AND THE MILK SUPPLY.
1 BIG: SHORTAGE. . Our special . . Jlanawatu representative learns > that during last. .month there has "been ah improvement in tho grading at . the; . factories; /along the although^'sevoral^still 1 fall short of The roason given is that sufficient, care in milking is not yet being. takgn by several .farmers, i — ..A Government dijiijv expert, interviewed on tho. niatter;.;states .that.in;.Povertyl-Bay tho dry weather ha(i' seripugly. affefttedjj'the crops; particularly .in! .:Gtas3 was"' fairly; plentiful qji\tho/flat, '.hut-' Jii4 supply,, arid, tiie equal ■to' about, two-thirds', of 'last;!year's output during! the same months; Tho quality: of the milk delivered at sonie of. the (factories was very .bad, while? the - condition- of many., of , tho.. farmyards was. L'ir.;.frbm';'coirimondablb. Au interesting..feature; was the. fact that one of tho factories (Niilidk'a) had ■ only • about fivo European, supplier's, the : balance .(about 35) being ; and in, his opinion the quality of tho milk: delivered by .the Mabris .was a great deal better', thin that supplied by' Europeans: .'.at othei\factories. ' '.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 2
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