DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 116, 16 April 1934, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

BUTTER MARKET CLOSES ACTIVE. CHEESE QUIET. The London butter market was dull last week, but the latest reports state that thero was more business at the close. New Zealand 6alted butter was quoted at 70s to 71s, a decline of 2s a cwt. on the week. Danish on spot was Is down at 84s and Australian was selling at 695. A year ago, when the market took a, turn upward from a low level of 645-655, New Zealiand butter was selling at 68s-70s. Deliveries of New Zealand butter last week wore 2500 tons, compared with 1700 tons for the previous week. New Zealand butter in store totalled 10,588 tons, compared with 11,112 tons at the end of the preceding week and 7850 tons a year ago. Retail prices in the North of England were unchanged at lOd a lb for Danish and 9d for New Zealand. The cheese market was quiet last week, New Zealand being quoted at 42s 6d to 435, a decline of Is a cwt. The Dairy Board’s London office reports Friday's official closing quotations as follow, those for the previous week being shown in parentheses : BUTTER. New Zealand. —Salted. 70s up to 71s (72s to 735; April 12, 1933, 68s to 70s); 70s to 71s equals approximately 8.05 d f.0.b.; unsalted, 71s to 72s (72s to 735; April 12, 1933, 66s to 70s). Deliveries, New Zealand, 2500 tons; in store, 10,588 tons. Australian. —Salted, 69s (70s to 71s); unsalted, 69s to 70s (71s). Deliveries, Australian, 2061 tons; in store, 6795 tons. Argentine. —Unsalted, 70s (70s). Danish, 613 fio.b.; 84s spot (625; 85s). Dutch: Unsalted, 70s to 77s (69s to 78s). Estonian: Unsalted, 70s. Latvian: Salted and unsalted, 70s to 71s (71s to 725). Lithuanian : Salted, 70s to 71s (70s); unsalted, 70s to 72s (725). CHEESE. New Zealand. —White and coloured, 42s 6d to 435, equals approximately 4/d f.o.b. (43s 6d to 445; April 12, 1933, white 38s to 40s, coloured 45s to 465). Deliveries, New Zealand, 23,292 crates; in store, 105,724 crates. Canadian.—White and coloured, 52s to 56s (50s to 565). Deliveries, Canadian, 7211 boxes; in store, 118,934 boxes. English finest farmers. —90s to 100 s (943 to 100 s). AGENTS’ REPORTS. W. Weddel and Co., Ltd., London report dated April 13:—Butter: Danish, 83s to 84s; New Zealand finest, 69s to 70s; Kangaroo finest, 68s to 695; there is a better feeling in the butter market. Cheoso- New Zealand, white, 42s 6d to 435; coloured, 42s to 435; cheese market quiet. The New Zealand Producers’ Co-opera-tive Marketing Association’s weekly cabled market report from London, dated April 13 is as follows:—Butter: Market steady after quiet week. New Zealand, 70s to 71s; Danish, 84s. Cheese: Market quiet. New Zealand, white and coloured, 42s 6d to 435. Mr A. C. Rowson, London, reports: Cheese: New Zealand, white. 43s per cwt; coloured, 435. Butter: Finest grade, 71s per cwt. Both markets firmer and steady. farming news. RURAL RAKINGS. * Over a hundred horses of all classes were offered at the autumn horse sale held at Morrinsville. Most of the entry comprised horses showing signs of age, which were not keenly sought after. However, any young horses guaranteed for all farm work met with keen competition, and sold at prices on a par with recent horse sales in the Waikato. The top prices of the sale were obtained for two geldings, aged five years and seven years, sold on account of Mr J. L. Scott, of Walton, to Mr S. J. Suisted, of Palmerston North, for £36 and £37 respectively. The range of prices was as follows:—Useful farm horses, all work, £23 to £3O; aged farm horses, with trials, £l2 10s to £2O; aged horses, £5 to £8 10s; four-year-old unbroken gelding, £26 10s; good quality hacks, £8 to £10; reliable liacks, £5 to £7 10s; aged hacks, £1 to £3. There has been much road traffic in sheep in the South Island this autumn, big mobs being often met with -on the roads. The other day a shepherd completed a drive lasting three weeks, from the south of Dunedin to Staveley, in mid-Canterbury. The sheep were given a rest at Oamaru. Another drover who was passing was asked what was his biggest flock, and somewhat proudly he replied that it. was a mob of 10,500 head, which took eight drovers seven weeks to drive the required distance. It was in 1914, and the route lay over the Nevis Hill in Otago. For this another three shepherds joined the party. Going up the Nevis occupied all one day, and when on the top the drovers found only an unfenced and unsheltered hilltop. Sentries were set to keep the sheep together for the night, and then snow fell in big flakes, like feathers. So stormy were the conditions that great difficulty wae experienced in boiling the billy. Next morning there were 25 dead sheep, which had perished, in the snowstorm. All that day was occupied in the descent, and another whole day was taken in punting the mob across the Clutha River.