DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13499, 14 August 1907, Page 5

DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, August 13.

The Dairy Association in its annual report congratulates shareholders on the completion of another successful season. The striking feature of the season, the report states, has been the large prices paid for butter at the beginning of the season by sanguine speculators in the colony, and the comparatively poor sale results of the same butter in England, and the heavy losses made by these speculators. The quantity of milk received during the season was 96,448,159 lbs. .The total butter output was 4,029,139 lbs — an increase of 835,081 lbs. Payments to milk, supplying shareholders, including interest and profit bonus, calculated on a butter fat basis, were: For, winter butter fat, including profits (uniform price at all creameries), almost exactly 10$ d per lb. ; for spring, summer, and autumn, on quantity supplied to the larger creameries, lOJd per lb. The average for the season over, all creameries 'was 9 9-10 d per lb. The butter fat quality of milk received (average of all the creameries) was 3.749 per cent. It took 23.9371b5. of milk to each lib. of butter. The skim milk test (average over all creameries) was 0.064 per cent.