FARMER’S INCOME

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 64, 9 March 1933, Page 8

FARMER’S INCOME

THE MILK CONTRIBUTION IS THE LEADING ONE Taking the world as a whole, milk is a more important contributor to the farmer’s income than any other single product, and eggs probably rank before wheat and rice and immediately after milk. This is one of a number of striking comparisons, showing the importance of dairy produce to the different countries of the world, given in a new Empire Marketing Board pamphlet, “Dairy Produce —a Summary of Figures of Production and Trade.” More milk is used for drinking or cooking (it is stated) than is made into butter, and more is made into butter than into cheese or any other product. Empire countries take second and third places on the list of butter and cheese exporting countries, but make only a poor showing in the export trade in eggs and preserved milk. In most countries eggs are mainly pro.’need for home consumption, and it is pointed out that only De.im i.”'/, among all the exporting coun' las of the war’d exports as much as Im 1 ' its iota! production of eggs. Tables an given shoeing the part played hv hut m, clips' and eggs in the exteival trade of the chief exporting countries. Butt' r represents nearly a Ord of Denmark’s, exports, and over a fifth of ti esc of New Zealand. Cheese forms about 13 per cent, of New Zealand’s exports. Exports of eggs and egg products take third place in the list of China’s exports. Imports into Great Britain The United Kingdom is easily the world's largest importer of eacd of / the five products—butter, cheese preserved m il;, eggs and egg products—dealt wi ll in the pamphlet, ire. the magnitude of ibis country’.- imports from fo”e;gr sources makes the Empire, ta-cei ns a unit, a net importer, on a coned.uarle scale, of each of the five prodirrts. The balanc- of ti e Empires ?m,io?-i trade amounts to between 3 900/00 cwt and 4.000.000 cwt of t'Utter, 190,000 cwt to 5 99,000 cwt of cheece, about 3,000,000 cwt of preserved milk nearly 2,500.000,900 eggs, and rearly 1,000,000 cwt. of liquid eggs.