BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 6

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

GRADING FIGURES,

The Dairy Division of tlie Department of Agriculture reports that the salted butter graded for October totalled 6711 tons, and the unsalted 399 tons, a total of 7110 tons, compared with 8337 tons salted and 513 tons unsalted, a total of 8850 tons, for October of last year; a decrease of 19.6 per cent. For the three months ended October last the respective quantities were 11,877 tons and 710 tons, a total of 12,587 tons, compared with 14,962 tons and 663 tons, a total of 15,625 tons, for the corresponding period of the preceding season, a decrease of 19.4 per cent. The cheese graded for October comprised : White 4352 tons, coloured 2399 tons, a total of 6751 tons, compared with 4650 tons white and 2648 tons coloured, a total of 7298 tons for October, 1924, a decrease of 7.5 per cent. The quantities for the three months ended October, 1925, were: AVhite 7038 tons, coloured 3679 tons, a total of 10,767 tons, compared with 6432 tons white and 3802 tons coloured, a total of 10,234 tons, for the corresponding period of the preceding season, an increase of 5.2 per cent. Converting these figures into Init-tcr-fat equivalent, there is a decrease of 13.7 per cent, in butter-fat production for the throe months as compared with the corresponding period of the 1924-25 season. Stocks held in the various grading ports at October 31 were: Butter 6699 tons, cheeso 8224 tons.