TOPPINO THE MARKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1924, Page 4

TOPPINO THE MARKET.

HOW DENMARK DOES IT. •» “ONLY THE BEST* A Danish expert in dairying, Lieutenant E. Mourier Patersen, who lias been having a look at some of the dairy farm of the North Island passed through Wellington on his way to the South Island. He expresses himself as greatly pleased thy what he has seen of dairying in this country. . Lieutenant Mourier-Patersen’s purpose in travelling through New Zealand is to g; information for the Danish Royal Agricultural Society in ./respect to the dairying methods employed in New Zealand. In the course 'of his travels since his arrival in this country he has visiteef some of the best ti.iius in the North Island, and he mentions that before corning here he spent four months in Australia in New South H ales, Queensland, and Victoria.

He thinks New Zealand is a beautiful and fertile country, and he finds various respects in \tfiich it differs considerably from, his homeland. The dairy here are very much different from those of Denmark. In ‘Denmark there are 1600 factories for !,3tn),000 cows. The farmers there take all the milk to the factories, and they receive back 80 per cent, of the skim milk on which they feed their pigs. In this way they have built up a big trade with Britain in bacon. In Denmark the holdings are small, mostly of from 1.5 to 60 acres, and tyhat big holdings there are are old estates. The secret of Denmark’s success in topping the prices of the English market, Lieutenant IMourier-Patersen thinks, is insistence of exporting only the best’ its butter. There, lie contends, lies the reason for its heading the pricelists. Tn addition, Denmark can place oU P roduce on the London market in 24 hours, ami, therefore, does not have to preserve it. In one important respect lie found that New Zealand methods differed from those of the Danes. Whereas many New Zealand farmers go in for crossbred cattle, the Danes pin their aitn to purebreds, generally Friesians.