DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 9

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

NEW SEASON'S PROSPECTS. LARGE BUTTER YIELD. RECORD OUTPUT PREDICTED. The new dairying season in the Auckland district has opened with every promise that a fresh record in production will be established. Experts in the industry who are in close touch with tho dairying activities of the various parts of the province confidently predict that last season's great record in butter production will be eclipsed before tho end of the season just commenced. These optimistic views are supported by the figures showing the quantity of butter received at the grading Btores since the new season opened, compared with the quantity received during the corresponding period of last year. From July 1 to August 12 this year, 24,259 boxeswere received for grading, against 11,140 for the corresponding period of last year., an increase of 13,119. That the increase is being consistently added to is shown by the consignments coming to hand week by week. For the week ended August 5, the boxes of butter received at the stores totalled 3832, against 2076 for the corresponding week of last year. During the week ended August 12, the receipts totalled 6616 boxes, against 4!J90 in the similar week of 1921. It is rather eiirly yet to obtain a reliable indication of the measure of cheese production for tJie new season. Cheese ', being held longer in store at the factory than butter, practically none of the new season's make is yet. to hand. Since July 1 this year 474 crates have been received at the grading stores, compared with 243 for the similar period of last year, an increase of 231 crates. ■ These consignments, however, are stated to have been cheese manufactured during the previous season, and eome little tome must elapse before a reliable estimate of the cheese production can be formed. The position in regard to the prospects ■ for butter is somewhat different from that i of cheese, and a close comparison of the ; figures relating to butter production dur- ' ing the slack periods of this and the pre- ! ceding season favours the opinion that ! butter production is being substantially increased. The winter of 1921 was the first in which butter in substantial quan- ; tity was manufactured, and this year also many factories have operated throughout the winter without the customary break, The lowest weekly tally of butter re- I ceived for grading during this winter was in the middle of July, when 3114 boxes : came to hand. For the corresponding ; week of July, 1921, the tally was 825 : boxes, an increase- for this year of 2289 boxes ; The Athenic, which will arrive at i Auckland to-day, will load 30,000 boxes of butter This will clear the stores of ; the remainder of last season's make and I 'sill also include some of the new season's i butter. ]