DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1785, 13 December 1883, Page 3

DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — Our cheese factories are now happily getting into full working order, with a promise of profit to all concerned, and as, „to,help on (this work, ihany fanners have bought and are milking a much larger number of cows than they nave done before, it behoves us to look a little ahead, and think what is to become of our extra quantity of milk when our factories are closed for the season. And then comes the question, .What will be the price for butter when so ■much extra milk must be made into butter, W for which the farmer will get, perhaps, (id £p&v lb. ? ' The present price is 8d in Auckland, and the cost of rail transit is Id to lid per lb.; the cloths to wrap the butter in cost \d each ; then the cost of b«\es to pack it in, it really does not leave Od per lb. to the fanner. Will that pay his wife for her trouble ? No. Not very long ago I read in one of the papers that dining our winter season the price of butter was homething like 2s per lb at San Francisco. If it be so, surely our co-operative association, or the freezing company, or home of the Auckland merchants may be induced to export our surplus stock of butter, and get the farmers, say, Is per lb. Now is the time to be on the look-out, and find if • possible a market for the extra quantity of butter that will bo thrown on the market next winter. It is no use to wait until winter comes, we must try to be be piepared for it. lam very pleased to learn that the Waikato Co-operative Association is going to be a success: Time will make it a big success : It cei'tainly shows that our farmers have resolved to let the world see they intend to work like men who mean to win. — Yours, &c, J. Nkwt.anp.