RECORD DAIRY OUTPUT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 10

RECORD DAIRY OUTPUT.

AUCKLAND PRODUCTION. INCREASE ON LAST YEAR. SEASON A MONTH AHEAD, GREAT BUTTER-FAT YIELD. The record dairying production in the Auckland province this season is well maintained by last month's output. The butter sent to the grading stores of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company totalled 153,630 boxes and the cheese, 1,6,159 crates, representing very substantial increases compared with April of last year. The receipts of butter for the 10 months the season total 1,755,734 boxes and tjhose of cheese 164,363, compared with J.,490,714 boxes of butter and 151,442 frates of cheese last season. The increases are 269,020 boxes of butter and 22,921 crates of cheese. Reduced to terms of butter-fat the returns show thero lias been an actual increase of 13,419,2001b. in the season s output. The total production to the end vf last month was 92,569,2781b-, compared with 79,150,07811>. for the corresponding period last season. The increase appears still more striking when it is considered that if last month s receipts were entirely eliminated, this season, with a total of 84,379,1281b. to the end of March, would still be 5,228,7491b. ahead of last year's output ■ j;s at the end of April, j The total production of butter-fat last jnonth was 8,190,1501b., against 5,236,8/2 lb. in April, 1926. The total production last March was 10,877,5921b. I ' Over nine times as much butter-fat has leen absorbed in butter manufacture as Til cheese, the figures being butter, $2,707,4981b., cheese, 9,861,7801b. The following table shows tho monthly Xe-ceipts of butler at the grading stores for the first ten months of the current fcsascn and its two predecessors:— 1925-27. 1925-26 1924-25 Boxes. Boxes. Boxes. July „ * ■ 9,815 9,700 1-1,435 August •. ■ 48,497 43.4K6 48,560 September .. 125.383 111,226 121,968 October .. 209,097 183,459 205,457 November .. 258.099 220,950 234,891 December .. 296.033 263,163 259,257 January .. 240,152 203,927 244,384 February . . 208,211 185,456 186,240 March .. 204,816 160,285 162,746 April . . 153,630 109,070 111,464 Totals „. 1,759,734 1,490,714 1,584,402 Cheese received at the grading stores Iffuring April, totalled 16,159 crates against 13,505 crates received in April, 1926, an Increase .of 2654 crates cr almost 20 per cent. For the season the output of cheese amounts to 164,363 crates against *151,442 crates produced in the corresponding 10 months of last season, an increase of .12,921 crates or about nine per cent.