WAIKATO BUTTER RECOVERY.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 144, 20 June 1928, Page 16

WAIKATO BUTTER RECOVERY.

How far tho Auckland province has progressed in the way of dairying recovery from the drought is indicated by the grading Ireturns of the Auckland -Farmer's' Freezing Conipany for the fortnight ended last Wednesday. These returns show that at last the fortnightly gradiugs of butter have exceeded those of the corresponding fortnight -of 1927, the respective totals being 27,051 boxes and 24,948. Cheese, however,'is behind, the fortnight's, returns being 2453 crates, compared with 2716 crates last year. With another fortnight to elapse before the end of the current dairying year, there is a certainty* of a record for the season in the provincial manufacture of butter, although cheese will be slightly behind. The aggregate production of butter and; cheese, 111 terms of butterfat, will be less than I]_1 ] _ per cent, below the 1926-27 record yield. Clearly 1927-28 would have eplipsed any, previous season had it not been for one of the most serious rain famines, ever experienced in the history, of the province. Waikato herds will enter-the heart of winter in good fettle, with renewed promise of a widemargined record .in the 1928-29 dairying year. '