Dairying Exports

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6172, 14 January 1922, Page 1

Dairying Exports

Big Increase In Butler Production Tho annual dairying returns for the past year, which ended on July last, show a marked increase in butter production, due in a large measure to the fact that pastoralists turned to dairying when tho bottom dropped out of the wool and meat markets The following figures show the actual quantity sent out of the grading stores for shipment during the dairying year, from August 1, 1920, to July 31, 1921: Butter. —630,894 cwt. (previous year, 281,161 ewt.) Chee5e—1,364,673 cwt. (previous year, 1,387,693 cwt) The quantities received into the stores for grading during the year were as follows : Butter.—69l,2ol cwt. (previous year, 380,051). Cheese.—l,ll6,97o cwt. (orevious year, 1,268,571) The fact that this was lees than the amount shipped was due to the fact that there was a big quantity in store in August, 1920, when the season opened. The amount in store at that date was tstimated at, roughly, 350,000 cwt. THE PRESENT SEA ON The figures for the present season, datmg from August 1 up to November 30, 1921, also show a large increase ia butter production, and a corresponding falling off in the volume of cheese handled. The quantities sent out for shipment from the giading stores were : 8utter—258,239 cwt. (corresponding four months of previous year, 98, 445 cwt) Cheese —248,147 cwt. (co responding four months of previous year, 259,137 cwt.) The qualities received into the stores for grading during the first four months of the present te-son were:— 8utter.—336,325 cwt. (corresponding four months of previous yea”, 291 433 cwt.) Cheese. —314,175 cwt. (correspondiog four months of previous yea' 1 , 359, 150 cwt.) AMOUNT PASSED THROUGH CUSTOMS.

The Custous returns reveal the fact that tho following qualities were txpotted during the year dating from Auguet 1, 1920, to July o), 1921 : Butter.-638,670 cwt,, valued at £8,654,479. Chee5e.—1,436,707 cwt , valued at £8,523,669. The Customs figures from August 1 to November 30 ot the prcieut dairying season were : 8utter.—175,037 cwt., valued at

£1,853,743. Qheete—lßß,4s2 cwt, valued at £1,011,622. Of c urse the foregoing figures by iio means represent tho actual amount of butter produced in the Dominion, as many small faimc-s make butter which they sell direct to the retailers, and cons' qnently there is no means of recording in the Dominion returns the amounts so dispes d of. /