A PROGRESSIVE CONCERN

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7026, 14 January 1910, Page 3

A PROGRESSIVE CONCERN

-ADVANCING MILK PRODUCTION. The North Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Company is still establishing records. Pox the December milk, it paid suppliers .£l2Ol 13s lOd, as against .£7B9' 14a 5d for the corresponding period of the previous year, an increase of .£412 Is sd. The butterfat totalled 30,4451 b, as against 20,0761 b, an drvcreaso of 10,3691 b. The amount of butter produced was 36,1591 b, as against 21,5561 b, an increase of 14,6031 b, equal to 6 tons 10 cwt 43 lb. The average tost" was 3.79, and 802,622 lb of milk were supplied. Had it not been for the dry spell experienced during the last two weeks of the old year, the incrt'ase would havo been considerably more, but the want of rain told it 3 tale, and very materially affected the supply. No doubt tho rain of .last Sunday and Monday will be beneficial to the grass, and in some measure bring back tho cows to normul profit. The company is nov/ showing such; good returns to suppliers that the settlers on the Okoke road will probably ask the company to erect a creamery near the far end of the road. Given' a rt'jsonablo guarantee of supply the company will, no doubt, accede to the request.