DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 7 April 1934, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

BUTTER 725-735. Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have received from London the following cabled advice, dated April 5: —Now Zealand butter, 72s to 73s per cwt. New Zealand cheese: White, 43s to 43s 6d per cwt.; coloured, 43s Cd to 445. Both very quiet. A. J. Mills and Co., Ltd., London, give the following market prices as ruling at the close of business on Thursday:—Butter: The market is slow. New Zealand finest, 725; firsts, 71s; unsalted, 72s to 755; Danish, 84s to 86s; Danish, f.0.b., 625; Australian choicest, 70s; first grade, 695. Cheese: The market is slow. New Zealand, white and coloured, 43s to 43s 6d; Canadian, white and coloured, 52s to 545. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., are advised under date April s:—Butter: Market quiet. Danish, 84s to 86s (90s); New Zealand finest salted, 71s to 73s (72s to 735); Australian finest unsaltcd, 70s to 71s (70s to 725); finest salted, 69s to 71s (70s to 725); Australian g.a.q., 67s to 68s (68s to 695). Cheese: Market quiet. New Zealand, white, 43s to 44s (445); coloured, 43s to 44s (445); spot price for Canadian, white, 52s to 56s (50s to 565); coloured, 52s to (50s to 565). Last week’s quotations are shown in parentheses. GRAIN AND RRODUCE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 6. Business shows little life. The holiday adjournment was expected to stimulate some activity after merchants’ offices opened, but it has been negligible. So far potatoes aro the only product creating a slightly improved inquiry. More North Island interest is being displayed, and a few lots aro going forward. Auckland advices aro to the effect that supplies arc nearly exhausted and southern potatoes will bo wanted in fair quantities shortly. Values locally remain practically the same as before tho holidays. Promt-. ■ wines are worth £4 2s 6d to £4 ss, f.0.b., s.i., and Dakotas 85s to 87s 6d. There is little business between growers and merchants; t.ho former anticipate that the market will not ease and the latter are awaiting the actual demand from Atcl'.land. Fowl wheat is q;Ted at 3“ 4id f.0.b., s.e., for prompt shipment, and 5s 5d to 3s 6d for spread. Oats show no chat.go. Partridge peas are quoted at 4s Id f.0.b., s.i. Milling wheat earns an increment of Id a bushel commencing with this month. The seed market for autumn sowing is practically over, and the. volume of business has been disappointing. Stocks aro very firmly held and prices aro unaltered. Ryegrass is worth 3s to 3s 6d a bushel f.0.b., s.i.; Akaroa cocksfoot, 9d to lOd a lb; cowgrass to 9d a lb; and white clover, Is to Is 3d. FARMING NEWS. RURAL RAKINGS. The London Daily Express states that Great Britain imported 7732 tons of Soviet butter during January of this year, this being three times the amount of Soviet butter imported in January, . 1933. . The principal buyers are . co-operative societies, who blend it - with Empire butter, describing tho final mixture as “dairy butter” or ‘partly imported.” Under the English law, mo-operative societies are not bound to say hat tho butter is partly Russian. The treatment of all dairy products,. such is skim milk, which is fed to pigs, is a lecessary precaution where the farmer vishes to reduce the possibility of tubcr : :ulosis to a minimum. All such food should >e heated up to 180 degrees Fahrenheit, ,nd kept at that temperature for approximately 15 minutes. Any offal should be oiled before being fed to pigs. According to a recent report in an Engsh paper, agriculture is still declining in Ireat Britain. No fewer than 75,000 farm ■orkers have left the land since 1923, and 5,000 fewer acres were actually under •ops in 1932, as compared with 1931. A ro forma report indicates that tho 1933 ; gures will show a further heavy decline.