DAIRY PRODUCTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 12, 15 January 1932, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCTION

FIVE MONTHS’ RESULTS V HIGHER DOMINION OUTPUT /I INCREASE OF 4.63 PER CENT. j Compared with the corresponding \ period of the 1930-31 season, an in- V crease of 4.65 per cent, is shown in (J butter-fat production in the Dominion A for the five months ended December x 31, according to the latest figures is- (/ sued by the Dairy Division of the De- A partment of Agriculture. > Salted butter graded in December, v 1931, was 15,977 tons, and the unsaltcd /) 832 tuns, a total of 16,809 tons. This A compares with 14,791 tons suited and \ 643 tons unsaltcd, a total of .15,434 tons U graded in December, 1930, an increase /; of 8.9 per cent. For the five months Y ended December, 1931, tho respective V quantities wore 53,271 tons and 1644 (■• tons, a total of 54,915 tons, compared A with 49,055 tons and 1870 tons, a total \ of 50,925 tons for the corresponding 0 period of the preceding season, an in- /) crease of 7.63 per cent. \ The cheese graded for December, v 1931, comprised 10,364 tons of white (7 and 4622 tons of coloured, a total of A 14,986 tons, compared with 10,6J7 tons x white and 4520 tons coloured, a total of (/ 15,197 tons for December, 1930, a /) decrease of 1.38 per cent. The quan- / tities for tho five months ended De- V cember, 1931, were 26,785 tons of u white and 13,229 tons of coloured, a A total of 40,014 tons, compared with < 29,211 tons of white and 13,433 tons 0 of coloured, a total of 42,644 tons, for A the corresponding period of tho pre- a ceding season, a decrease of 6.16 per V cent. Stocks held in the various grading A ports at December 31, 1931, were 13,538 X tons of butter and 11,786 tons of (/ cheese, compared with 11,176 tons of (J butter and 11,366 ;ons of cheese, held a ou December 31, 1930. V