DAIRYING DEVELOPMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1935, Page 9

DAIRYING DEVELOPMENT

STORY OF GRADING STORE TREND OF QUALITY TRACED. THE RAPID GROWTH OF EXPORTS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS’ GRADING. Interesting figures showing the development of the dairy industry in Taranaki were given by Mr. F. Thomson to the dairy factory managers at his farewell at New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. Thomson has graded the butter for export at the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works at Moturoa for .25 years and the' figures cover, that, period; The butte grading average percentage stood at 92.75 in 1917 and four years later had risen to 93.45, he said. The average slumped to 92.38 in 1921 but since thexx had improved slowly but surely until this year it stood at 93.99. Cheese likewise improved from 89.93 in 1917 to 92.26 in 1927, but the standardisation which came in 1929 saw the grade fall again, and it has really only come back to the 1927 level during the past two years. Following are the grading figures since 1917 for butter and cheese respectively;—

The quantities are also illuminating. In 1911 200,009 boxes of butter passed through the works and only 30,000. crates of cheese. In 1920 the butter quantity had dropped to 80,00'0, while cheese had risen to 155,000. Butter then started to come back to its own and in 1935 its total had reached 412,266 boxes; compared with 248,000 crates of cheese. The increase over the 25 years period was 232,266 boxes of butter and 199,000 crates of cheese. Following are the figures:—

1917 92.75 89.93 1927 93.52 92.26 1918 92.67 89.90 1928 93.64 91.77 1919 92.90 90.11 1929 93.86 91.72 1920 93.45 90.50 1930 93.73 91.70 1921 92.38 90.38 1931 93.73 91.52 1922 92.47 90.61 1932 93.879 91.67 1923 92.62 90.61 1933 93.927 91.743 1924 92.96 90.81 1934 93.968 92.306 1925 92.16 90.94 1935 93.990 92.398 1926 92.74 91.16

Year. Butter. Cheese. 1910 .... 180,000 45,000 1911 .... 200,000 30,000 1912 .... 140,000 50,000 1913 .... 130,000 70,000 1914 .... 110,000 90,000 1915 .... 170,000 95,000 1916 .... 170,000 110,000 1917 .... 143,000 110,000 1918 .... 130,000 110,000 1919 .... 90,000 155,000 1920 .... 80,000 155,000 1921 .... 135,000 140,000 1922 .... 180,000 135,000 1923 .... 265,000 130,000 1924 .... 200,000 180,000 1925 .... 235,000 206,000 1926 .... 210,000 210,000 1927 .... 230,000 220,000 1928 - ... .... 245,000 » 215,000 1929 .... 230,900 235,000 1930 .... 305,000 235,000 1931 .... 310,000 250,000 1932 .... 340,000 225,000 1933 .... 360,000 270,000 1934 .... 412,695 276,000 1935 ... .... 412,266 244,000