DAIRY PRODUCE OUTPUT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18662, 19 March 1924, Page 11

DAIRY PRODUCE OUTPUT

DECREASE IN BUTTER. CHEESE SLIGHTLY BETTER. FIGURES FOR LAST TWO WEEKS. The returns of butter received for grading at the stores of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company . for the first two weeks of the present month show a. decrease compared wi'tji the figures for the corresponding period oif March, 1923. This decline is in ikeepiug with previous returns for the season. The dry weather experienced during the season is primarily responsible .for the noticeable shrinkage. For the period March 1 to March 14, 66,626 boxes of butter were recerived at tho stores. The number for the same period of last year was 72,539, so that the decrease is 5913 boxes. The quantity of butter received to March 14 this season is 1,134,205 bares, compared with 212,219 boxes for tlio corresponding season, a decrease of 78,014 boxes.

Cheese returns, on the other hand, continue to ehow an increase. For the first two weeks of this. month 7045 crates 'were received, : ;is .{against 7005 crates for the first two wee'fcs of March, 1923, an increase of 41 cra'iies. Though the increase is practically negligible the cheese received for the season to March 14 totalled 132,396 crates, ym increase of 54,545, compared Hvit,h .the. return for the same period of last year.