DAIRYING IN AUSTRALIA

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 28 December 1929, Page 2

DAIRYING IN AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALAND METHODS BEING FOLLOWED. AUCKLAND, Dec. 25. “Australian dairy farmers are at last waking up to wliat New Zealand is doing,” said Mr E. F. Voysey, sales manager of the Producers’ Distributing Co-operative Society of New South Wales, who arrived by the Ulimaroa yesterday morning. He went on ±o' say that next March a party of dairy farmers from Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland will visit New. Zealand to see what the Dominion is doing as far as up-to-date dairying is concerned. “Australian farmers are starting to emulate New Zealand,” said Mr Vosey. “They are top-dressing their pastures for one thing. Much of the good farming land was planted with paspalum, which has almost ruined it, but now that they are using top-dress-ing it is bringing the clover through. Australia would be a wonderful country for dairying if the farmers paid the same care and attention to their, grass lands as the New Zealand farmers do.” Mr Voysey says .that dairying is going ahead in New South Wales, and will continue to do so. At present about 70 per cent, of the total amount of butter produced is used for local consumption. In explaining the work of his society Mr' Voysey said it is th© biggest thing of its kind in Australia, and the annual turnover is £5,000,000. The society is a farmers’ organisation, the bulk, of the shares being held by co-operative dairy factories. However, the society aj>so deals in dried and fresh fruits, eggs, 'bacon, and grain. Everything is handled on the commission basis. Mr Voysey is aI New Zealander. He was born at Waihou, and started fcis career with the Thames Valley Dairy Company.