DRY WEATHER AND DAIRYING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 8

DRY WEATHER AND DAIRYING.

A TREMENDOUS LOSS. fni TBIiEGEAPH — PKE2S ASSOCIATION.] HAWERA, This Day. The effect of tho dry weather during January is illustrated by the shrinkage j of the output at the Kaupokonui factory. I In December, 1906, Y332T cheeses were ! manufactured ; in December, 1907, 7881. J instead of a corresponding incroaso m January which would have occurred under ordinary conditions there was a falling off of 654 cheeses, the number being 6646 as against 7300 in January, 1907. Tho experience of Kaupokonui is also the experience oi many otner factories in the prov- j ince, and the aggregate falling off must represent a tremendous lots to the industry. EFFECT IN SOUTHLAND. [Br Telegiiafh. — Special to The Post.] INVERCARGILL, This Day. There is an indication that the continuance of dry weather will lead to a rise in the" price of milk here. Grass i is not bcarce, but, from want of rain, it lacks nourishment, and dairymen's supplies are 6teadily shrinking Ouo milk supplier, handling twenty cows, has suffered a falling off of iifteen gallons a week. A meeting of suppiiois is called for Saturdayto consider tho question, and a riso in "price is not unlisjiy to result.