SKIMMINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 2

SKIMMINGS

The directors of tho Eltham Dairy Company have decided to postpone further consideration of the Mangatoki cooperative bacon proposal for another twelve months. Up to date Auckland has exported 26,363 boxes of butter, compared with 21,728 boxes for the corresponding period of last year. Prospects continue bright for tho milk producer in the north. The Warea Co-operative Dairy Company is making fourteen boxes of butter a day, just four times as much as were

made at the corresponding; date of last season. The principal Canterbury Dairy Companies set co-operative concerns in this island a good example. They have allowed liberal depreciation, paid a fair dividend, and granted a bonus to employees. Some dairy companies are exhibiting a fine development in their business this year. The Waitara factory received 501,9961 bs of milk last mouth, against 163,7281bs in September of last year, an increase of 337,8681b5. If the system of home separation was adopted by suppliers generally, said tho chairman of the .Central Dairy Compouy, Christchurch, he feared that very strict .supervision would be required to prevent a marked deterioration in tho quality of the butter. Tutu poisoning has been playing havoc amongat dairy cows and other classes of stock (says the Awatuna West correspondent of the Hawera '‘Star”). This is a very bad time for this poisonous weed, ns it throws up a mass of tender shoots, thus making an "appetising dish” for the bovine. The chemist of the Government Laboratory in London says that "tho quantity of water in 'colonial’ butter, formerly exceptionally low, is now nearer the limit, and occasionally exceeds it.” At butter blending or, reworking places 597 samples were vnkon, of which 50 were found to contain excess water. At the New Jersey, experimept station is a dairy cow, Mauds- King 2nd, a purebred Jersey, During ten months in 1908 she yielded 10,30811)' of milk, containing 57311) of butter.- During six months and. twenty-four days in 1909 she yielded 8219 .lb miik; containing 1581 b of butter. There has been a remarkable expansion of the Victorian, export trade in butter this, season. During tho three months which ended on September 30th 21681 tons, valued at nearly .£250,600, were sent away from Victoria to ports beyond tho Commonwealth. Pot the same period of last year the figure was 775£ tons, and, for 1908 it was only 109 tons. The “Smor Tidende,” the Danish dairy newspaper, states that an increasing sale of Danish cream is taking place across the frontier into Germany for buttermliking, owing to a ,slip in the German tariff law which admits cream in free, while the duty on butter imported into Germany ,is 9s -id, per cwt. Sweden is also able to export cream from Trelloborg into the German town of Sassnitz, the two -places-being connected by a direct lino : of steamers.

In 1909 Denmark exported 178,425,0001 b of butter, of which 170,841,760ib was shipped to Britain; Germany took 6,812,50010, The average price for butter was 110 s per cwt in 1909, according to the Danish official quotation,. The celebrated Danish official butter quotation has been much under criticism of late, and a modus vivendi between Copenhagen merchants and English buyers has been agreed upon which widens the scope of the quotation by admitting reports from the largo importers in Britain. Messrs John Caldwell, Johnston Wylie, and Abram Compton, three Edendalo farmers, have returned from a trip to Britain. As to farm methods, Mr Caldwell informed the "Wyndham Herald” that the farmers in each of tho three eouutrieg were far behind New Zealand. As to the cheese market, Home merchants wore not able to forecast the market, but Mr Caldwell could easily see that New Zealand cheese was held in the greatest depreciation. -New Zealand butter, too, has obtained a high reputation. No better butter goes into the Homo market, and it has a. ready sale a.t the present time. Mr Caldwell could see great possibilities for New Zealand in the supply of .pork for the British market. Fork was selling at G7s GcT per cwt. "Wo must freeze onr pork and send it Home.” he declared.