IMPROVED OUTPUT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 68, Issue 5939, 5 May 1944, Page 3

IMPROVED OUTPUT

DAIRY PRODUCTION TE AWAMUTU DAIRY COMPANY SHOWS BIG INCREASE An improvement ini output during April as compared with the corresponding month of last year has been experienced by dairy companies throughout the Waikato. Production had fallen away considerably during the late summer because of the very dry conditions but with the sudden improvement in the pastures during the beginning of autumn production figures began to improve. A substantial improvement is reported by some companies, the Te Awamutu Co-operative Dairy Company, for instance experiencing an increase of 72 per cent, in output for April compared with the output for April of last year. Last month the company received 701,9501 b of cream compared with 404,3141 b of cream for the same month last year and made 155 tons of butter against 90 tons last year.

An increase in production has also been recorded by the Morrinsville Cooperative Dairy Company, the company’s production during April being 233 tons in comparison with 227 tons in February. Production is beginning to fall very noticeably now, but it is expected that the final figure will be considerably better than was generally expected a few months ago. The recovery in production had been splendid, said Mr C. J. Parlane, manager of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company, in commenting bn the posting. At the corresponding period last year, he said, many of the cows were dry. A noticeable feature of production this autumn, said Mr A. J. Sinclair, secretary-manager of the Te Awamutu Co-operative Dairy Company, was the very fine quality of the cream that had been received and the company had never graded higher for butter. This striking improvement was probably due to the fact that the pastures did not contain the same amount of clover but comprised mainly rye and paspalum during the autumn months.