YIELD FROM DAIRYING
PRODUCTION IN AUCKLAND PROVINCE, INCREASE FOR 10 MONTHS. The production of butter-fat in the Auckland Province has been exceptionally well maintained, the figures for the first ten months of the current dairying season comparing more than favourably with the average output of recent years To date this season more than 136,001,0001 b. have been produced, an increase of 10,18-1,0001 b., or more than 8 per cent., on the returns for the corresponding period in tho 1930-31 season.
April’s yield of butter-fat used in the manufacture of butter and cheese was 9,925,0001 b., which is 1,954,0001 b. more than in April, 1931, an increase of 24 per cent. In April, 1930, the yield was 9,927.00014)., practically the same as in April last. It is estimated that the average payout for butter-fat during the 1931-32 season has been lOd per lb., as compared with an average return io farmers of 10J-d during the previous season. Calculated on this basis the monetary value of the ten months’ output this season is approximately £5,666,710, compared with £5,504,500 during 1930-31.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 147, 7 June 1932, Page 11
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