MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE.

Southland Times, Issue 18937, 10 May 1923, Page 7

MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE.

To the Editor. Sir, —A following letter to mine of May j, regarding the marketing of dairy proluce: In that letter I was condemning the oiling of our cheese pence per lb below the London parity. What’s wrong with the buyers now? We have not had an offer for nearly two months. Has our cheese no value at the present time, or are they (the buyers) too much interested in ’.he Canadian output? Factories which have been selling all along have now to make arrangements for consigning. There 3 something radically wrong when cheese /alls 50 per cent, on the London market within a month. It surely shows that we need seme sort of control, so that our proluce will spread evenly over the whole seaon. When there is a shortage the price rises to such an unsafe height that it retards consumption, and the consequence is that there is a glut period, and prices fall and don’t *know when to stop. We all know that supply and demand should rule, and the producer will be satisfied when it does rule. There is a great cry nowadays about production and still more production, intense cultivation, herd-testing, making one cow give as much as two gave before —and what for?—to give the middleman twice as much produce to gamble with. If the people cannot consume the present output, how are they going to consume twice as much? There would be a bigger glut than ever if not better controlled than it is at present. The annual conference of daily’ factories is being held in Dunedin on June 6. At- that meeting there will be a lot of important remits dealt with. The Dairy Control Bill will be one of them. All dairy factories should make a point to send a delegate to that conference with instructions how to vote.—l am, etc., CHARLES WARDEN. Grove Bush, May 7.