Dairying Statistics.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18606, 15 September 1932, Page 4

Dairying Statistics.

N.Z. FACTORY PRODUCTION. SOME VITAL FACTS.' in the year endeil March 31, 1032, 00,548 ions of creamery butter and 83,200 tons of cheese were graded for export from New Zealand, the produce being manufactured by 370 companies operating 400 factories. Of tho.o companies, 126 were engaged in buttermaking, 106 in the manufacture of cheese, and the remaining 58 made both butter am. cheese.

There were 184 companies operating' 207 factories making butter, of which 160 of the companies with 181 factories were co-operative and the quantity of butter graded on their account was 99,959 tons, or 91.372 per cent, of the total. 'The remaining 24 companies were proprietary, operating 26 factories, and the quantity of their butter graded was 8.89 tons, equal to 8.628 per cent, of the whole. The average butter production per factory was 481 tons. The cheese was manufactured by 244 companies operating 320 cheese and dual-plant factories. Of these companies 233 were co-operative, operating 309 factories, and the quantity of their cheese graded was 81,756 tons, or 98.148 per cent, of the total. The remaining 1543 tons equal to 1:852 per cent, of the cheese 'graded, was made by 11 proprietaries operating 11 factories. The average production for all cheese factories was 260 tons. In Terms pf Bujbterfafc. Converting the amount of butter and cheese made to terms of butterfat, it is found that 82,957 tons of butterfat was represented in the butter, and 32/038 tons in !tihe cheese, a total of 114,995 tons. Of this, 107,244 tons or 03.260 per cent., was manufactured by cooperative companies, and 7751 tons or 6.740 per cent, by proprietaries. The total number of milk or cream suppliers to dairy factories for the year under review was 63,946, of which 54,675 supplied co-opera-tive companies and 9271 prorietaries equal to 85.502 and 14.498 per cent, respectively. Included in the above were 84 companies operating 85 registered whey-butter factories, which made a total of 1422 tons of whey butter (as a byproduct of cheese manufacture) during the year.