BRIGHTER BUTTER PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 8

BRIGHTER BUTTER PROSPECTS

— Mr. J. G. Harkness, secretary of the National Dairy Association of Now Zealand, who has just returned from a, business _ visit to the Mtuiawatu and Taranaki dairying districts, in course of convei tation with a representative of The Po^t to-day, said he never saw the country looking better. Feed was not only plentiful, but over-abundant. It would not pay to turn it into hay in placet where machines could not he uted, and much of the grass was going to seed. The cattle were never in a better condition, and the milk yield had already reached what might; be called its maximum some weeks earlier than usual. It was possible, in these circumstances, that tho season woul,d be shortened. Farmers were well satisfied with tho prices they were receiving for bnt-ler-fal, and the dairying outlook was exceedingly bright.' Prices wero down in London it was true; but the greater portion of tko factories having sold their outputs- up to March would not .'niffer on t^iat account. Factories that had consign?tLwcnild, of course, feel the pinch, but in the ordinary course of tilings there should be a recovery of prices before very long.