DAIRY PRODUCTION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 269, 13 October 1932, Page 6

DAIRY PRODUCTION

INCREASE IN OUTPUTS. ADVANCE RATES FIXED. Following upon the opening of season under most favourable condii tions this year, dairy production in ! the Manawatu district has advanced Ito a remarkable extent, and there : have been big increases in outputs, j The season bids fair to establish new j records in butter and cheese tonnage i if the present rate is maintsmea. I The Kairanga Company, handling a large output, has increased this by 20 par cent, compared witu the corresponding perioa cf last year. Advances for butterfat supplied during September have been nzed at 10id for butter by the Awahuri, Kairanga. Rongotea, Cheltenham and New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union Companies. _ Since Sunday evening 8 raimall c: 1.43 inches has been recorded by Mr T. R. Moore, of ••Waimarama,” Ter-; race End. It has had a most stimulaitng effect and has on a rapid and vigorous growth c-f fresh j young grass in readiness ror the fiusn . of the season. IN OTHER DISTRICTS.

Copious downpours have seen experienced in other districts, particularly in the north. Southland was in the grip of a dangerously dry spell until warm showers came last week and eased the anxiety of both graziers and dairy farmers. North Otago and Central Otago, yrere the rains are most- needed, probably missed the best of the rain, but _ even though the coastal regions and the southern district of the province were not desperately in. need of moisture the fall will do a great deal of good.