MILK SUPPLIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 2

MILK SUPPLIES.

' =>iik arriving at tile . Fresh MiJk Asscoiation's, factory, .fit- Fcath6rstoD) (says our _ correspondent): is 450.' gallons per day, add it,is, expected that, the supply ~will' ■ increase"' to' 500 gallons during thisvwfcek. There ar6 at present eight suppliers, and the .treated.milk is, railed to Wellington'and' . Masterton. 1 ••. > ."At, tho Foatherston Dairy 'Factory,, the. supply ,is only 700 : gallons,, as against ,2200 for > tho corresponding ■" period, of last ,;year. Although the recent drought made,a substantial'difference," the. Fresh: Milk' Factory. has .taken a fair ..quantity 'of tho supply, v ahd,the' oX^##U' 0 ' Si9?e;on or-aboiit April -.This I .week only one vat/.will be required. 'Dairy.Factory is 'dealing.with 15 V- gallons every 'day, and the; directors ltaye, deferred jthe''matter of closing' tho season, iii tho hopo that tho rccent rain will ,?nng_ the': grass on rapidly, .and that tho! •suppliers have soma .late cows. Tho test at this factory, has been.s.3, wijth an' average of 4.5, one pound of curd being obtained:irom 91p.:-of milk, i, The"-'remission of one l year's reritl.td- these' settlers' ha's' niade/up' for - the bad season to some extent j : and to one holder: 'means , Tho -Otaraia .factory is' receiving 250 gal 4 .10113, and' it. is- anticipated., thatthe ! , recent ; ram ; will mean tho,-factory running longer.