QUEENSLAND EXPANDING

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 2

QUEENSLAND EXPANDING

VIGOROUS . YOUNG BUTTER -INDUSTRY. ' A 'few .'years-,ago Queensland wns an importer of, butter, aiicl the idea of all .export trade, to Europe would havo seemed i>repos-■■■: . terous. " Wheri' I lived ,in North Queens- \ land, right on the. coast, too. (sHys tlie London conosiiondent of. the -North Queensland"' • Herald'), there was no: bUttor to bo'had'for- ■ six months of tho year, and we bad to do '•! with jam and'marmala'do. and an extra allow- ; an.ee of chops and steaks." 7 then, how- " ever, agriculturists have waked up to the •

wealth that is invested for them by Mother Nature in' the' rich pastures of -tho .plateaus lying; along ; the : thc\ ranges'- that divido tho coast land's from the. crazing areas inland. -Tho riso of tho export dairying in-dustry-reads liko a romance, one in which tho inhabitants of Groat Britain have a substantial interest, considering that Queensland is holping-to feed us at tho rato of 90 tons of butter por week. ; When tho last mail left. Brisbano. 650 tons of butter woro waiting to; bo. shipped to .Loudon. .. A month's figures of 0110 to-opcrativo" concern— tho Queensland Farmers' Co-operative , Company —show what is being done. iTho Decomber (1907) -output; at the Company's factories; represented 239,1391b5. of butter,, and the amount- paid to tho farmers supplying croam was £i0,474v ,:Tho average pneo paid to farmers was about 9i|d.. por lb." . ;