FARM AND DAIRY

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 21, Issue 89, 2 December 1910, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY

The Riverdale Co-operative Dairy Company, Hawera, enjoy the reputation of manufacturing the largest amount of cheese under one roof of any company in tbe world. Its output is certainly on a vast scale. The milk being delivered daily by the forty-eight suppliers ia 96,0001 b, from which gooolb of cheese are made. It is estimated that from ist November (butter was made to that date) up to the end of November 600 to 700 tons of cheese will be turned out. This will mean a return of from £35.090 to £40,000. In addition there will be tbe butter made up to tbe end of October. The supply is now at its flush, a full month earlier than was customary up to last season. At one time Christmas was reached before the milk supply commenced to drop, but with the early spring of last season and this the highest point in the supply has been reached at a much earlier date. While the Riverdale factory makes the record amount of cheese in this country, the record for the largest quality of dairy produce exported by a single co-operative Company ia now easily held by tfie New Zealand Dairy Association of Auckland. Tlfis concern, which has absorbed the Ambury aqd English business, shipped last month no less than 16,609 boxes of butter, w#rth over £40,000. Its Ruahine shipment, representing a fortnight’s make of butter, comprised 8893 boxes. At the opening of a dairy f ictory at Menzies’ Ferry on Friday, states an Invercargill correspondent, Mr Walter Henderson, a leading local merchant, expressed the opinion that the policy announced by the Banks this season of acting as consigning parties for the output of dairy factories was unfair competition with business firms, ?nd outside the recognised functions of Banks, M r Henderson added that it showed how keenly the business of dairy companies was competed for. He anticipated that it would not be many years before dairy produce would take precedence over all other exports of the dominion in point of value A Hawke’s Bay settler, writing to a friend at Gisborne, states that in Hawke’s Bay lambs are being purchased at 3d per lb on stations, sd delivered; fat wethers at 15s fid, and bullaoks at 23s per loolb.