DAIRY PRODUCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 February 1926, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

PRODUCTION STATISTICS. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Fell. 4. ; The figures of the dairy division of the Department of Agriculture show that the salted butter graded for Janu. ary, 1926, totalled 8213 tons, unsalted 401 tons, a total of 8614 tons, compared with 9788 tons salted and 625 tons unsalted, a total of 10,413 tons for January last year, a. decrease of 17.2 per cent. For the six months ended January, 1926, the respective quantities were 39,073 tons and 2323 tons, a total of 41,396 tons, compared with 45,289 tons and 2706 tons, a total of 47,995 tons for the corresponding period of the preceding season, a. decrease of 13.7 per cent. Cheese graded for January, 1926, comprised white 6918 tons, and coloured 3487 tons, a total of 10,405 tons, compared with 6889 tons white and 3368 tons coloured, a_ total of 10,257 tons for January, 1925, an increase of 1.4 per cent. The quantities for the six months’ended January, 1926, were white 28,501 tons and coloured 15,3/ v tons, a total of 43,878 tons, compared with 27,134 tons white and 14,723 tons coloured, a total of 41,857 tons, for the corresponding period of the preceding season, an increase of 4.8 per cent . . Converting these figures into the butter-fat equivalent, there is a decrease of 8.4 per cent, in the butter-f-rt production for the six months as compared with tlie corresponding period of the 1924-25 season. Stocks held in various grading ports Januaiy 31. 1926. were-. Butter, 90/0 tons; choose- 9390 tons.