N.Z. DAIRY INDUSTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11783, 20 March 1924, Page 8

N.Z. DAIRY INDUSTRY

SOLID AND PROSPEROUS AVERAGE QUALITY OF BUTTER HIGHER THAN AUSTRALIA. SOIL NO BETTER. By Telegraph.—Pres? Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 19. Mr Meares, general manager of the Coastal Farmers’ Co-operative Society, interviewed on his return from a visit to New Zealand, said that his inquiry into the Dominion’s dairying industry had strongly impressed him that it was in a solidly-entrenohed position, as well as being in a flourishing condition, and a rapid extension of the industry was apparent-. He was impressed by tho fertility of the dairying land, and the high rate of production apparent. IMPROVING THE STANDARD. What most of all impressed him, in comparing New Zealand with Australia was tho intelligent concentration of ’the bulk of the farmers in the Dominion upon greater production per cow and per acre, and a determination to uplift by standardisation the quality of his products, both intrinsically and in flavour. The manufacture in Australia of the choicest butter was equal to anything he saw in Necw ealand, but the average quality in New Zealand was much higher. A fundamental factor in this developmet was New Zeal arid’s better rainfall. but the soil and country as a whole did not impress him as better or rioher than Australia’s dairying areas; indeed, it was rather the reverse.