DAIRYING SEASON.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17930, 4 July 1930, Page 2

DAIRYING SEASON.

N.Z. DAIRY COMPANY’S FIGURES

TREMENDOUS INCREASE I'N OUTPUT

As our readers are already aware, the past season has'been an excellent one for dairying and we are now able to-publish the production figures for the factories owned by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, who have to record a tremendous increase in output, due to the favourable season and the large increase in the number of suppliers, who now exceed 8000.

No doubt 'the realisation of the value of, and the judicious use* of fertilisers, has placed the Waikato- in the enviable position of being the greatest dairy producing district in the Dominion at the present moment, and it is to be remembered that It was this company which was directly responsible for reducing the price of fertilisers, thereby encouraging the use of this commodity, which is reflected in the large increase in production.

For the 12 months ending the 31st March, 1930, no less a total chan 110,045 tons of fertiliser was unloaded' at railway stations throughout the territory which they cover, and is has been estimated that the reduced cost of fertilisers has saved the North Island farming community no less a sum than approximately £200,000 per annum.

During the 1919-20 season, the first year of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co.’s operations, the total output of diairy produce was 11,653 tons, comprising: 8717 tons of butter, 2549 tons of cheese and 387 tons of casein. The gross turnover was £2,017,774, whereas the figures for the 1929-30 season show the total quantity of dairy .produce manufactured as 44,592 tons, comprising: 32,448 tons of butter, 6563 tons of cheese, 1200 tons of casein and 4381 tons of milk powder. The gross turnover for the season just, closed is not yet available but for ' the .1928-29 season this reached the very high figure of £6,602,646.

It is hardly necessary to point out what -the distribution of this huge amount of money means to the Waikato in particular, and more generally speaking to the Auckland .province and the Dominion as a whole, but as New Zealand depends -for her prosperity almost entirely on her primary products it is obvious that the circulation of this amount of money must be reflected in the growth and development of the Dominion. The factory outputs of what is generally known as the “big company,” to the nearest ton, for the '1929-30 season are:— BUTTER ’ * Tons. Frankton - 3496 Morrinsville •• 1951 Mount Eden 1376 Nigaruawahia 53 Ngatea 1692 'Ngongotaha 828 " Otorohanga - 1612 'Paerata 3980 f Paeroa 1612 Te Awamutu 3158 Tuakau 2291 Waharoa 3853 Waitoa »... 2224 i Waihou - 1585 Waimauku .."..» - 467 Waiuku - 2269 ■ CHEESE Aka Aka 512 East Tamaki 534 Eureka 317 Gordonton 303 Hairini .....L 295 (Hikutaia ».» 323 (Huirau Road ...» 330 * Kiwitahi - 189 Kopuarahi Manawaru 459 (Miatamata Matatoki 326 Orini - ....» 352 Rukuhia i 252 Te Puninga - 390 | Waitakaruru 300 Wharepoa 261 MILK PO WDE R Waitoa 2898 Waharoa 1483 CASEIN Frankton Central 1200 The Ngaruawahia and Manawaru ' factories were destroyed by fire in the early .part of the past season and in consequence the former operated for June and two weeks in July only, whilse the latter, which has since been rebuilt, did not commence operations until December last.

The above figures represent an increase in production over the 1928-29 season of: '5253 tons of butter, 614 tons of cheese, 486 tons' of casein and 40 tons of milkpowder. This makes a grand total of 6393 tons increase in production for the past season. It will no doubt be of interest to our readers to learn that the past season’s output for this great co-opera-tive company considerably exceeds the total quantity of produce received at the New Plymouth and Patea grading stores, through which practically the whole production of the Taranaki province passed for the season ending 31st May, 1930.

Calculated on a cheese basis and allowing two tons of cheese for one ton of hutter, as is 'customary, the figs ures show that the produce received at the Taranaki grading ports just mentioned was equal to 56,372 tons of cheese, whilst the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co.’s output, also on a cheese basis, shows their production to be 71,458 tons, or a quantity in excess of the Taranaki total' of 15,086 tons.