DAIRY PRODUCE
INCREASED GRADING FIGURES. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 9. The Department of Agriculture reports that salted butter graded during May totalled 3195 tons and unsalted 55 compared with 2314 and nil in the corresponding month of 1925, an increase of 40 per cent. For the ten months ended May 31 67,458 tons salted and 2248 unsalted were graded compared with 58,655 and 2818 last year, an increase of 13 per cent. Cheese graded last month was 2549 tons white and 1499 coloured compared with 2454 and 1599 respectively for May, 1926. The figures for the ten months to May, 1927, were 49,545 white and 25,020 coloured compared with 46,258 and 26,209 a year ago. Converted into the butter-fat equivalent these figures show an increase of 9.69 per cent, in butter-fat production for the ten months just ended compared with the previous corresponding period. Butter stocks held in various grading ports on May 31, 1927, were: Butter 9710 tons; cheese 9431, compared with 9029 and 10,862 respectively on May 31, 1926.
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Southland Times, Issue 20200, 10 June 1927, Page 8
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173DAIRY PRODUCE Southland Times, Issue 20200, 10 June 1927, Page 8
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