GREAT DAIRY OUTPUT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 12

GREAT DAIRY OUTPUT.

FIGURES FOR NINE MONTHS.

INCREASE OVER 11 PER CENT

HEAVY BUTTER PRODUCTION

[by telegraph.—rnuss association."] WELLINGTON. Friday.

Figures of the dairy division of the Department of Agriculture show that the salted butter graded for April, 1930, was 6532 tons, and nnsalted 166 tons, a total of 6698 tons, compared with 5023 tons salted and 166 tons nnsalted, a total of 5194 tons for April, 1929, an increase of 28.89 per cent. For the nino months ended April. 1930, tho respective quantities were 88,571 tons and 1536 tons, a total of 90,108 tons, compared with 74.037 ' tons and 2163 tons, a total of 76,200 tons, for tho corresponding period of the preceding season, an increase of 18.25 per cent. Cheese graded for April, 1930, comprised: White, 5399 tons; coloured, 2639 tons, a total of 8028 tons, compared with 4925 tons white and 2362 tons coloured, a total of 7287 tons for April, 1929, an increase of 10.30 per cent. The quantities for tho nine months ended April, 1930. were: White, 52,872 tons; coloured, 26.187 tons, a total of 79,059 tons, compared with 54,140 tons white and 24,735 tons coloured, a total of 78,875 tons, for tho corresponding period of the preceding season, an increase of .23 per cent. Converting these figures into tho butterfat equivalent there was an increase of 11.3-5 per cent, in butter-fat production for tho nine months, compared with the corresponding period of tho 1928-29 sea-

Stocks held in tho various grading ports at April 30, 1930. were: Butter, 15,396 tons; cheese, 14,381 tons, compared with 5513 tons butter and 9934 tons cheese held on April 30, 1929.