King Country Chronicle WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1912 THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 497, 4 September 1912, Page 4

King Country Chronicle WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1912 THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

. _ * What New Zealand owes to the dairy industry has yet to be written; what it will owe in the future cannot be estimated. It is safe to assert with every degree of confidence that the channels opened up to the farmer by the establishing of the industry in this country has had a greater and more pronounced effect on the prosperity of the Dominion than any other of our staple industries. Furthermore we have the gratifying fact that the industry is still making wonderful headway, and this year the Dominion's export of butter and cheese bids fair to eclipse all previous records Much depends upon the weather experienced later in the season, but with normal conditions everyting points to a very favourable season. At the present time dairy exports are divided as to the merits of butter or cheese from a business standpoint and indi-

production, with something of a reduction in the butter output. The fact that many companies are this seaßon going in for cheese manufacture in place of butter dooß not necessarily mean a corresponding reduction in the butter output. In this country the industry is spreading rapidly and in newly settled districts new factories are being etablisshed each season. The new concerns in almost every instance are now being started on the home separation principle, which means that butter is manufactured and not cheese. In districts such as our own it is manifestly impossible to undertake the manufacture of cheese, the state of the roads precluding the possibility of carting milk to a factory. Opinions agree that cheese may show a temporary advantage in prices over butter, but of the two branches of dairying the production of butter is likely to maintain a greater degree of permanency and stability of price. It is gratifying to Iciirn that market indications concerning both commodities are highly favourable for the present season find our farmers can look forward with confidence to first-class returns.