BUTTER AND CHEESE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 31, 6 August 1923, Page 8

BUTTER AND CHEESE

A HIGH VUODUCnON.

Tho figures of (ho .Dairy Division of Iho Dopuitnnmt. of AKrimilUiro show that tho salted lmtlw yrndvil for .Inly, 1923 was 505 tons, iiml Uu. vmsntud 15 tons, a total of 62(j limn, roii))mri>ii with v total of 595 lons for July of lunt year, a riecroniu) of 12.6 i,,,,- ,-„,,(, jty,. jj, 0 twelve month* <>ml«| July, VOitf, Iho rospcoll'vo qlMllMliliii «' o |« (vj.Vflli tolls lUI<I 4058 toiiH, » totiil „f 67.050 'toiiit, compared with ii (.<)(»I of 50,(i'1« (oim lust year, nn iriMraat* of 3<1.8 |w i:t«n(. Tho cheese, grucloct U,e .Inly, JOBS, comprised: WhHo 84 tons, colour.;,! JiJO torn., iv lota! of 2O'I limn, cotimiiretl with 130 tons for July, 1022, nn iiuirourtn of .U3.0 pov cent. Tho f|iuuiUti.!P for the twolvo months ended July, JOB 3, were: Wliito 03,374 tona, coloured 2iS,t)<l6 Uiiih, n'totnl of 61,220 tons, ..onipiiitxl with it total of 63,790 lon* Jiml, your, » ilonromte. of 4.0 per cout. C'oiivvrl.iiiit Uioko figures into butlm-.riit oquivnlmit tlmi-o i« un increase of 20.1 por cont. in liuder-fnt production for tho l.wph'o months. » 8 compared with tho corresponding period

There in n, bright tone about Iho export dairy product) innrkct, collected in reported husliuwH at tho froo on board equivalent of In fljd per pound for buttor and up to 9<l per pound for cheese, also for iinmcdintu export, i.«., August shipments. So fur' n« 'priced for next year's (1923-24) outputs iinr concerned, no priccH arc named. Koprcni-ntativci of Brjtißli distributing lintm'iire at present activo in tlio country districts interviewing directors iih to coiißi|{nmenU. Thcro is no change in tho local market prico of butter. Tho Australian demand for butter is now fully satinfied, and : practically all contracts liuvo been completed. This Australian trade camo at a : most opportune moment, imd the nl- '■ most was done from this end to foster it in view of possibly future outlets in the Commonwealth during tho dull period of winter and tho normally easier conditions of the British market at about *he same time.