TARANAKI DAIRYING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19216, 4 January 1926, Page 11

TARANAKI DAIRYING.

INCREASING PRODUCTION. Though the butter-fat returns for the season so far still show a decrease as compared with the same portion of last season, indications show that a good deal of the loss sustained in the early part of the season is being made up, and provided the late summer and autumn do not prove too dry, there is every probability that by the close of the season it will be found that the output this year will bo quite up to that of last season. It will be remembered that whereas the early part of last season was particularly favourable for production, the latter part was just the reverse. Up to December 12, the Moturoa Freezing Works handleel 8,437,9351b. fat, as compared with 9,039,9951b for the same period of last year, a decrease of 602,0581b., or 6.6 per cent. This percentage of decrease shows a great reduction during the past month, as on November 7 the decrease was 9.8 per cent., and, on October 10, 11.6 per cent. More cheese than butter is being made this year, 4,451,8201b. fat being converted into cheese and 3,986,1171b. into butter, making 74,197 crates e&eese and 84,811 boxes of butter, an increase of 4672 crates cheese, but a decrease of 18,744 boxes of butter. Desipte the strike the stores have been kept well clear of produce, there being in store 24,535 boxes of butter and 16,499 crates cheese, while up to the end of the year space has been allocated on three vessels for 27,200 boxes of butter and 17,100 crates of cheese. —(North Taranaki Correspondent).