DECEMBER MILK OPERATIONS.
THE D.-UEY UNION. , ■l'h® New Zealand Dairy Union continues'.to .'make: rapid strides-in. its -big ' business, and this is evidenced by; the cheques which axe to. bB paid out for December - - milk.. --: These .total. £610,909 16s. Id., (writes out Palmerston 'correspondent). This is at the rate- of IOJd. for •butter-maldng, and lid. for cheese-mak-ing, iwhioh-priceSjare .the veiry highest that' tho markets"''warrant.;.. The butter made '.Jo'tals. 115J tons/- and cheese, 38 tons—a'weekiy .increase of 3 tons of but.' ter and : tons', of cheese on last year. Another, pleasing-feature is .the large in.crease in the number of suppliers, the total now being 361,' as against 262 last year. - The union has sold. : some of Its dosed : creameries, and :is fewer, : with ■ more 1 suppliers,'and- thus ; saving'largely in working expenses.' The recent dry weather'has caused the milk supply-to drop-10 per cent, during . the month' at some of. the creameries J oil the PalmcTston side ol the range, .whilo near Eketahuna the supply has kept up, remarkably weU, more rain;having been experienced on'that eido.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 714, 13 January 1910, Page 8
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172DECEMBER MILK OPERATIONS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 714, 13 January 1910, Page 8
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