HIGHER PRODUCTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 9

HIGHER PRODUCTION

RECORD DAIRY PRODUCE GRADINGS. BIG BUTTERFAT INCREASE. All previous records in butter and cheese production have been broken by the grading figures for the eight months of the 1932-33 season ended March 31. For the first time in the history of the dairying industry the 190,000 tons mark for butter production has been passca in the eight months’ period. Graaings of butter for the eight months ended March 31, totalled 197,988 tons, compared with 104,211 tons for the twelve months or the 1931-32 season. Gradings of butter during March showed an increase of nearly 33 per cent, over those for March, 1932. the increase for the eight months being 21.19 per cent. Butterfat production for the eight months showed ‘an increase of 18.894 per cent. Cheese gradings during the eight months totalled 81,740 tous, an increase of 13.19 per cent, over those for tne corresponding period of 1931-32. The figures of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture show that the salted butter graded for March, 1933, was 12,919 tons, and the unsaltcd 413 tons, a total of 13,332 tons, compared with 9159 ton salted and 887 tons unsalted, a total of 19.937 tons for March, 1932, an increase of 3295 tons, or 32.83 per cent. For the eight months emi. March. 31, 1933, the respective quantities were 194,901 tons salted and 3987 tons unsalted, a total of 197,988 tons, compared ith 85,200 tons salted and 3908 tons unsalted, a total 0.t’89,108 tons for the corresponding period of last season, an increase of 18,880 tons, or 21.1!) per cent. The cheese graded during March. 1933, was:—White. 8297 tons; coloured. 3523 tons, a total of 11,820 tons, compared with 5930 tons white and 3815 tons coloured, a total of 9745 tons for March, 1932, an increase of 2075 tons, or 21.29 per cent. For the eight months ended March 31, 1933, the quantities of cheese graded were:—White, 58,679 tons; coloured, 23,061 tons, a total of 81.740 tons, compared with 47,991 tons white and 24,282 ton scoloured, a total of 72,273 tons for the corresponding period of last season—an increase of , 9467 tons, or 13.10 per cent. Converting these figures into butterfat equivalent, there Is an increase of 18,894 per cent, in butterfat production for the eight months of the present season, compared with the corresponding period of the 1931-32 season.