AUCKLAND'S DAIRYING SEASON

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 30, 4 August 1925, Page 6

AUCKLAND'S DAIRYING SEASON

A substantial falling off in production took place, as was to be expected, in the first month of the official dairying season in the Auckland district (states "The Post" correspondent). The receipts at the grading stores were 5326 boxes ot 1 Gutter, compared with 14,435 boxes is July, 1924, a decrease of 9109 boxes. There was also a drop in the cheese, figures, although the decline was not so ! "great as in butter. The receipts at the grading stores last month totalled 889 1 crates, as against 933 crates in the corresponding period of last year, a decrease of 44 crates. The cheese returns would probably be tho carry-over from the ena i of last season, and the figures have little t significance as far as the new season's operations are concerned. The butter re> i turns for July do not afford a reliublt basis on which to estimate the season* prospects. The production for the month is limited to farmers who milk all the year round, and seasonal conditions ait an important factor. This year recurring floods in June and July in the B»y of Plenty, Thames Valley, and Waiknto districts rendered winter milking to any extent an impossibility. The effect of th« floods was ividwpretd, and any. sound ectimtt* of the uiion's proapacu in regard to dairying production will bo is> i pottibli until w«U iajo tb« wring.