The Dairying Year

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 5, 7 January 1941, Page 8

The Dairying Year

INCREASED PRODUCTION DOMINION FACTORY RETURNS WELLINGTON, Jan. 5. Statistics of the operations of dairy factories during the year 3939-40 show that the physical volume of production as measured by the quantity of butterfat received for manufacture increased by 8.4 per cent, as compared with 1938-39. The number of persons engaged foil by 85 in comparison with 1938-39, but salaries and wages paid increased by £BBO9, a little under 1 per cent. Increases were also recorded in the other costs of manufacture—cream cartage rose by 7 per cent., cost of materials other than butterfat by 12 per cent., and other manufacturing expenses by 2.5 per cent. The increase in the value of production was £2,543,424, or 9.3 per cent.; cost of butterfat increased by £2,290,194, or 9.6 per cent.

Although the absolute increase in butter-making was greater than in the case of cheese-making, the . relative increase was less, the actual percentage increases in the quantities of butterfat received .for butter-making, cheesemaking and other purposes being respectively 7, 15 and 10 per cent. Of the 376,493,4511 b. of butterfat received by factories in 1939-40, 76 per cent, was used for butter-making, 23 per cent, for cheese-making, and under 1 per cent, for the manufacture of condensed and dried milk.

The quantities of butter, whey butter and cheese made during 1939 ; 40 increased by 7 per cent., 10 per cent., and 13 per cent, respectively, compared with 1938-39, and the corresponding increases in tho values of these products were 7, 10 and 15 per cent. The value of other products tose by 30 per cent.

There was a decline in the number of suppliers from 65,846 to 63,69"