DAIRYING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 2

DAIRYING IN NEW ZEALAND.

I The following extract from Country Life in Canada will be read with injterest: The increase in cheese production in' New Zealand has been astounding. In the last seven* years the output has increased 770 per cent, ami no one seems able to foretell how much this may increase during the next seven. In New Zealand the soil is very fertile, and the cattle remain outside the year round, but these two reasons are not given as being the only ones affecting cheese production. Dairymen in that country have for years foreseen the ■ inroads which the margarine trade was. likely to make on the butter demand, •and'during the last few years factories proposed have been nearly all cheese factories, and very few butter factories. New Zealand dairymen look for a wider market and a greater increase in the demand for cheese than butter. JudgiKg from the figures on the increase, and the MT>id strides cheese production is making in New Zealand, also from conditions in this country where the cheese factory is gradually being driven out of business, it would seem wise for our dairymen to develon along butter producing lines. Of course a great deal of cheese will still be made, and perhaps ma few years when people have been educated to eat more cheese, there will be greater demand, as New Zealand producers believe. But for the present the butter business seems to be gaining favor, seeing that it leaves the dairyman skim milk for his calves or hogs, which he is beginning to see is a very important consideration in the general" welfare of his farm.