DAIRY PRODUCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 2 August 1913, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE.

Already the disposal of cheese outputs has begun in the North Island. It was reported last week that several South Island factories had sold their cheese outputs for the coming season at 6d to 6id per pound. It is now reported the several large Taranaki cheese factories have disposed of their future make on guarantee without recourse terms at 5-} d per pound, f.o.b. It is understood that they include the JolJ, Kaponga, Kaupokonui, Meremere. and Mangatoki. Further South Island sales are reported at prices ranging from 6 l-16d to 6^l. So far. the disposal of butter outputs is not being discussed. Enquiries are being ro-

I "eeived from -Vancouver, but at prices that cannot be met at this end. How both Canada and the I nited States, especially the latter country, are reducing their exports of dairy produce, while other countries are increasing; theirs, is seen in the following tabic, which covers a period of live montlis from" January 1 to May 1: CHEESE. 1911. 1912. , 1913. cwt. • cwt. cwt. Australia ... 8,615 1,413 ' 4,742 New Zealand 300,993 382,936 423,461 Canada ... 123,436 103,220 122,318 IT'ted States 103,896 11,363 7,858 Holland ... 86,817 95.975 112.640 Italy 32,856 36,089 42,912 BUTTER. 1911. 1912. 1913. cwt. cwt. cwt. Australia ... 557,736 382.841 356.455 New Zealand 227,145 267,746 194,133 Canada. ... 69 25 — Russia ... 148.446 136,761 143,078 Sweden ... 159.671 144,753 131.823 Denmark ... 751.9P4 674.513" 699.963 Holland ... 35.219 40.408 49,128 France ... 63.073 57.280 65,374 IT'ted States '9,679 2,594 — Argentina ... 7,747 35.601 55.921 It must not*be for-'--then that the five montlis are practically five winter months of the Northern Hemisphere. Wellington Post.