DAIRY INDUSTRY
INCREASED PRODUCTION
(United Press Association)
WELLINGTON, This Day. The Department of Agriculture reports: Salted butter graded during May totalled 3195 tons and unsalted 35 tons, compared with 2314 and nil in the corresponding month of 1926, an increase of 40 per cent. For the ten months ended May, 67,458 tons of salted and 2248 of unsalted were graded, compared with 58,655 and 2818 last year, an increase of 13 per cent. Cheese graded last month totalled 2549 tons white and 1499 coloured, compared with 2454 and 1599 respectively for May 1926. The figures for ten months to May 1927 were 49,545 while and 25,026 coloured, compared with 46,258 and 26,209 a year ago. Converted into butterfat equivalent these figures show an increase, of 9.69 per cent in butter fat production for the ten months just ended compared with the previous corresponding period. Stocks held in various grading ports on 31st May, 1927, were: Butter 8710 tons, cheese* 9431, compared with 9029 and 10,862 respectively on 31st May, 1926.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 June 1927, Page 5
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