DAIRY OUTPUT INCREASED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 133, 9 June 1927, Page 13

DAIRY OUTPUT INCREASED

The director of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. W. M. Singleton, reports th« following gradings of butter and cheese for export:— Month of May 1927 1926 Butter . .... 3250 2314 Cheese ■.'.. 4048. 4053 Butter graded, May 1927, included 55 tons unsalted; all that of May, 1926, was salted.. Butter graded shows an increase of 40.4 percent, over May^: 11926.. ; Cheese graded May, 1927, was 2549 tons white, 1499 toils coloured; for May, 1926, the whita was 2454 tons and coloured 1599 tons. Cheese graded shows a decrease of 0.12 per cent, on May, 1926 gradings. Returni of grading for ten months ended 31st May were as follow:*— . • 1927 .1926 Increase ■ - Tons Tons p.c. Butter . 69,706" 61,473 13.3 Cheese 74,565 72,467 2.9 The butter-fat equivalent of the produce graded for export for the past tea months shows an increase of 9.69 per cent, as compared with the corresponding period of 1925-26. Stocks held in store at grading ports in the Dominion at 31st May were as follow: — • 1927 ' 1926 Tons. Tons. Butter ~^...».. 8710 9029 Cheese U.« 9431 ' 10,862