A SEASON OF PLENTY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 4

A SEASON OF PLENTY.

WAIKATO DAIRY OUTPUT. w ; • -• ‘ ALL? RECORDS ECLIPSED. .£ ■ ", The wqhderful-nature of the current dairying Reason is shown by the fact thst the Production of blitter-fat during Decembers'- throughout the te#itory in which thg New Zealand Co-operative Daily company operates exceded that for November by over 200,0001 b., the actual ficritpd being 6.656.6121 b. of But* , ter-fat, states the Hamilton correspondent, of the -Auckland Herald. In advance payment for this output £393,174 lls’ Id was distributed to the company’s suppliers on January 20. Owing to the season iharang been an early one it was expected itbatiNcmember might prove to be the-T ? peaE!’ moUthi. but the succession of. rains*, throughout December kept the pastures3in good condition, so "that the Decetober figures over-topped those November. The: grading “figures for the company’s factdries T^aojitijnue> to be surprisingly good. TpiaeiiSJfapkton Nq. 1 factory repeated its; splendid,.'.record for' November, when it manufactured over 10,000 boxes all - graded superfine, by sending forward' m December 10,054 boxes, of which, every one was graded superfine, ■with »an average grade oi 94.37. The> Otorofianga factory, also achieved the distinction pf having every box—a total of. 8505rx*ettt forward .to the Government gracHa®. store classed as superfine. This .xficoSaris/ particularly good as the Otorommgw -factory handles cream from many .scattered The average was 93.74: Four other f factories have records almost as satisfactory. company’s total production of butter-fgt for the,.season to. the, end of December was ~,12,454, tons, and it is expected that *|he; production for January will be nearly. .‘3OOO tons, or approximatelyaday. If the season continues ph as favorable a basis as the indications suggest, it is confidently expected'thatth-e production for the season will reach between ’ 21,000 and 22*000 tons’. : V v '* The production of cheese is also above the> figures ’foijdast veay, and the-" grading results are good, the■ position being, occupied by thS Ata Aka factory/ 1 wits ■ a : grade of ,92;’62. Of toe total output, the number ’ of second r grade crates was only‘3s,'out of a production <ofrfioarly -9000 1 crates. A small - bonus representing the surplus on : the. London market on stocks held at-thetend of 7 last May is about to be distributed to suppliers. The sum of 4d-extra for butter-fat supplied in May will, also be paid at the same time, while *-■ furtheupayment will, b<j.,npi.de at thqjrend of February, representing the profit oh 'the butter-fat supplied during' May, June and July.