AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 24 (Supplement)

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

SEASON OPENS WELL. “As far as production is concerned, the 1934-35 year has opened brightly, particularly in the dairying districts of New South Wales, and practically the same conditions apply in the rest of Australia,” said the New South Wales Director of Dairying, Mr. L. T. MacInnes, in a recent statement. “A heavy spring production is assured, and, if -the same favourable conditions continue the 1934-35 output for Australia and that of New South Wales will exceed the respective productions of last year. Increased yields in 1933-34 compensated for the lower prices and the lower returns received by the farmers, and it is hoped that the same thing will apply for the year to end on June 30, 1935. “In the fight for the Empire butter market Providence, by giving us good seasons, has been and is fighting on the side of Australia. Heavy yields per cow and per acre reduce the cost of production to the farmer, the cost of manufacture at the factories and the cost of distribution and transport. The combined result of all these benefits is to enable Australia to meet the prices obtainable overseas with better advantage than our main competitors in Europe. With luxuriant pastures and good seasons for growing crops, fodder has not to be purchased by the Australian dairy farmer, whereas' the Dane must not only purchase food for his cattle, but must also stable and feed them. This entails large labour costs, and handicaps him in his competition with Australia and New Zealand.”