BUTTER AND CHEESE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19505, 5 February 1926, Page 9

BUTTER AND CHEESE

INTERESTING FIGURES. BIG DECREASE IN BUTTER. [Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. Figures of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture show that salted butter graded for January, 1926, were 8213 tons, and unsalted 401 tons, a total of 8614 tons, compared with 9788 tons salted and 625 tons unsalted, a total of 10,413 tons, for January last year, a decrease of 17.2 per cent. For the six months ended January, 1926, the respective quantities were 39,073 tons, and 2323 tons, a total of 4.1,396 tons, compared with 45,289 tons and 2706 tons, a total of 47,995 tons for the corresponding period of the preceding season, a decrease of 13.7 per cent. Cheese graded for January, 1926, comprised white 6918, and coloured 3487 tons, a total of 10,405 tons, compared with 6889 tons white and 3368 tons coloured, a total of 10,257 tons for January, 1925, an increase of 1.4 per cent. The quantities for the six months ended January, J 926, wore: White 28,501 tons, coloured 15,377 tons, a total of 43,878 tons compared with 27,134 tons white and 14,723 tons coloured, a total of 41,8517 tons for tho corresponding period of the preceding season, an increase of 4.8 per cent. Converting these figures into butterfat equivalent, there is a decrease of 8.4 per cent, in butterffat production for the six monuths, as compared with the corresponding period of the 1924-25 season. Stocks held in various grading ports at January 31, 1926, were: Butter, 9070 tons; cheese, 9390 tons.