THE DAIRYING SEASON.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1443, 20 July 1933, Page 6

THE DAIRYING SEASON.

TOKOROA COMPANY. Previous Records Beaten.' The Tokoroa Dairy Company will pay out 8-d per pound butterfat for June supply. It is understood that a preliminary bonus of 13d over the whole season’s supply will also be paid. A final bonus to be paid later is expected to bring the total payment for the season to approximately lOd per pound butterfat. The company’s output for the past season was 361 tons, as against 280 tons for the previous year. The previous best year was 343 tons in the 1930-31 season. This year the company had one supplier less than in 1932.

A feature of "the season’s operations is the reduction of working expenses up to f.o!b. to id per pound.

CAMBRIDGE COMPANY.

Butter and Cheese Payouts.

The Cambridge Co-operative Daii’y Company last season received 4,385,610 pounds of butterfat which was manufactured into 3445 tons of cheese, 789 tons of creamery butter and 106 tons of whey butter, the total production showing an increase of 12 per cent, over the previous season.

Surpluses will allow of the final estimated payments being made as follows:

Butter Suppliers. Average advance payments, 8.210 d; final payments, 1.029 d; total, 9.239 d. Cheese Suppliers. Average advance payments, 9.191 d; final payments, .922 d; total, 10.113 d. The following are the statistics for the year, last year’s figures being shown in parentheses:— Buttermaking.—Pounds of butterfat received, 1,444,848 (1,384,492); tons of butter made, 789 (751).; pounds of butter made to pounds of fat, 1.22 (1.21); cost per pound to f.0.b., 1.26 d <L3Bd). Cheesemaking.—Pounds of butterfat received, 2,940,762 (2,457,705); average test, 4.14 (4.12); tons of cheese made, 3445 (2860); yield of cheese, 2.62 (2.60); pounds of milk to green cheese, 9.20 (9.32); tons of whey butter made, 106 (86); cost per pound to f.0.b., 1.12 d (1.263').

BRUNTWOOD COMPANY.

Good Payout for Cheese.

The Bruntwood Dairy 'Company during the 1932-33 season established a new record in the output of cheese —70 tons above any other year’s production in the history of the company. Advances have been made during the past season at the rate of 9.73 d per pound butterfat, and the surplus will allow for a distribution which will bring the total payout for the season up to date of -11.3 Id per pound butterfat. When final realisations come to hand it is anticipated that the total payout for the season will he in the vicinity of 11.50 d per paund butterfat. The payout for the season ending May 31, 1932, after all realisation of unsold stocks at that date, at--11.5d per pound of butterfat.

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The company won the championship for the Auckland province at the recent Auckland Winter Show. The payout from June to October, 1932, inclusive, is 11.51 d per pound butterfat, and out of the estimated surplus standing in the profit and loss appropriation account, ithe board recommends an immediate distribution over the months of November, 1932, to May, 1933, to bring the payout for these months up to 11.25 d per pound butterfat. ■ During the year 720 tons of cheese was made. The average test for the season was 4.05; the average grading was 91.67; the cost of manufacture was .69d per pound of cheese, distribution .298 d per pound, and overhead expenses .072 d per pound, a total cost of I.OGd per pound <bf cheese.