BUTTER AND CHEESE VALUES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 317, 2 October 1908, Page 5

BUTTER AND CHEESE VALUES.

'' A USEFUL TABLE. WHAT ABE THE OUTPUTS WORTH? :Wo published on July 23 a table of relative value of cheese and butter, but thoso figures; ■>vere compiled by an Australian expert, and were not in accordance with New Zealand values. : Below wo give a more accurate comparison, based on New Zealand conditions. Farmers' sons and daughters .who excel at arithmetic will find it interesting practico to work out the 6um for themselves. It is not altogether simple. Here it is:— 231b. of milk make lib. of butter or 2.31b. cheese; from that quantity of milk tho butter-making leaves the farmer Id. worth of skim milk, but cheese-making loaves him whey worth only Jd.; the cost of making and marketing lib. of butter is l}d. f.0.b., and the cost of making and marketing lib. of cliecso is ifd. f.o.b. When the selling price of cheese f.o.b. is as stated in the table below, what : price ought butter to fetch f.0.b., so that the.supplier to a butter factory shall get • equal value from his milk as the supplier to aicheese factory? Here is tho answer:— If/cheese fetches Butter is worth per'ewt., f.o.b. per cwt., f.o.b. s: ; s. d. 1 . 35 73 6 •' :36 75 9.6 37' 78 1.2 38 80 4.8 , 39 82 8.4 ■ 40 85 - ' ' 41 87 3.6 42 80 7.2 '43 .- 91 10.8 44 94 2.4 ' ■•45- 96 6 ' < 46 98 9.6 47 101 1.2 '•? - 48 103 4.8 . 49 105 8.4 ; 60 ;.. 108 — 51 110 3.6 : . • 52 112 7.2 53 114 10.8 54 117 2.4 55 .'. 119 6 56 121 9.6 57 124 1.2 i , 58 126 4.8 ,'59 128 8.4 ' , GO 131 - 61 133 3.6 62 135 7.2 63 137 10.8 .64 ....... 140 2.4 ' -65 142 6 . ;66 144 9.6 167 ..; 147 1.2 •68 149 4.8 169.... 151 8.4 !!70 154 — I; MANAWATU SHOW. 'A carnival of agricultural industry is the name i which might bo applied to the threo days' r show to be held on November 4, 5, and 6 ; at Palmerston North by the Manawatu and ,West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The extensive nature of the show, tan bo gathered from the number of classes, provided Horses, 70; cattle, 72 ; sheop.Jilll; pigs, 39; ,dogs, 142; utility poultry, 60; arts and industrial photography, 7; art and technical schools, 53; public schools, 33; needlework',. 48; home cookery, etc., 35. All entries, 'except of live stock, close on October 9; and live stock' entries close on October 16.