DAIRYING IN AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20322, 2 February 1928, Page 15

DAIRYING IN AUCKLAND.

EFFECT OF DRY SPELL. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, February 1. A shrinkage in dairy produce due to the sustained dry spell is sharply expressed in the returns of butter and cheese received into the grading stores of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company, Ltd., for the fortnight ended on January 25. Whereas throughout 1927-28 the dairying year up to the last fortnight butter and cheese have flowed into the stores from all quarters of the province in quantities almost continuously in ex- v cess of the receipts for corresponding periods of 1926-27 year the amount of butter taken into store last month was 111,326 boxes', compared with boxes for the corresponding period of last year. The comparison in cheese was 10,202 crates and 11,536 crates. When the production for the dairying year to date is considered, however, the general position respecting production remains one to be regarded with satisfaction. In pounds of butter-fat the receipts into store since July 1 aggregate 67,294,092, compared with 60,810,820 for the corresponding period of 1926-27 dairying season, an increase in excess of 10.6 per cent. Haying regard to the fact that this substantial advance has been built up on the great bulk of the season’s yield, it is extremely unlikely that in any circumstances the current dairying year will terminate in anything but a substantial increase in production over the previous seasou.