JOTTINGS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)

JOTTINGS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS

Dairying in Victoria. That dairying is very profitable in Victoria is shown by the figures in the balance sheet of the Cola<- Dairying Company, for the year ended Juno JU. The turnover on actual sales was £492.17.7, which was exceeded on only two previous occasions, in 11’21 and 1923. when the price paid for butter fat was higher than in the past year. For the year just closed the amount distributed to suppliers of milk and cream was £350,244, an increase of £37.1 S 3 on the previous year. The payment to suppliers for skim milk amounted to £16,542, against £1:1,822. The wages account amounted to £22.4Hi. and firewood and power absorbed £L’.,3i9. Since the inception in l x 9-”» the aggregate turnover of the concern has reached a total of £8.492.5«8. The butter produced for tin* past 12 months was 4.249.3161 b.. as compared with 4.073,Ds3lb. in the previous year; cheese, 626,7611 b., against 668.4411 b.; casein. 777,4961 b.. and sugar of milk 212.1191 b. The average price per pound of butterfat paid to suppliers was 9.154, with Out skim milk, an-l the average price paid to milk suppliers was 21.7(»d. The net profit for the year was £15,097. Auckland Dairy Season. The new season’s dairy production in the Auckland province continues at a much higher level than th*' recordbreaking basis of this time last year. It is particularly satisfactory to note that cheese is now aiding butter in building up new records thus denoting the complete recovery of the dairy herds from the dry spell last summer and autumn. Following is a summary of the number of boxes of butter and crates of cheese received into the grading stores of the Auckland Farmers Freezing Company for the fortnight ended on August 22. 1928 and 1927, together with the quantities in store at the end of the periods: —

This represents, in terms of butterfat, an increase of 21.43 pet cent, in the receipts for the fortnight, compared with the corresponding period of the 1927-28 season. Butter is chiefly responsible, but it is now being joined by cheese, which, as the season advances, continues to make a better comparison with last dairying year. Frozen Meat Market. The latest cable advices show that the quotations for frozen meat on the

Smithfield market are maintained nt I the high level reached, but the high prices are tending to cheek demand. There is at present visiting Australia, an officer of the Port of London Corporation, Mr D. Young, who is recognised as a world authority on beef. Mr Young is in Australia to conduct an investigation into conditions of the meat industry. In addressing stock breeders in the Riverina, Mr Young said that Australian importers would, be well advised to remember that many changes had occurred in the requirements of Smithfield in recent years. The altered conditions of life of the j British consumer had resulted in a de- ; mand for the smaller joints of young, well-bred stork. The day of the heavy : bullock, the big sheep, ami the weighty i pigs were gon*-. Those anxious to win ; and hold trade at Smithfield markets irnust supply only that class of meat which was demanded by the British eon- . sumer. “There is a good market, but it must be supplied by the right class of i meat,” observed Mr Young. International Wool Statistics. Early in July there was held in Paris a meeting of delegates from various wool-using centres in the world to consider the question of collection and exchange of international statistics of the wool trades, and the wool textile industry. This meeting was held in pursuance of the policy of the Economic <’ommittee of the League of Nations. In view of the importance of the subject dealt with, it is unfortunate that there should have been a serious defect in its constitution, inasmuch as no delegate from the Bradford Chamber of Commerce was present. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce was largely responsible for the creation of the International Wool Conference, which has already devoted a good deal of time to the consideration of the collection and exchange of wool trade and wool textile statistics. Ever since 1925 the International Wool Conference, which includes the six principal wool-consuming nations in Europe, has done much preparatory work for the collection of these statistics, and in May last made progress with the preparation of an international nomenclature for the tvool trade, which is a prime necessity to makp the statistics collected of real value.

Butter. - Cheese. J928 1927 1928 1927 Received . 38.476 31,701 711 5<4 In store . 42,082 35,570 1,547 3,327