THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 September 1899, Page 15

THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

In the course of a lecture delivered at Nelson the other day, Mr. Ruddlck, Chief Dairy Commissioner, gave some interesting particulars with regard to the dairying industry. He believed that no country in the world was so well suited for successful dairying as New Zealand. > Milk could be produced cheaply, and at the same time Gutter and cheese of first quality could' be manufactured. At this period, however, dairying was a comparatively small business compared with other countries, as, for instance, Denmark, which with : one-seventh the area of New Zealand, exported to Great Britain last year 60,000 tons of butter, while the production of New Zealand for the year ending June 30th last, was 5.469 tons of butter and 3,110 tons of cheese. In the same time Canada exported to England 75,000 tons of cheese, and the production of Great Britain itself was 150,000 tons of butter and 87,000 tons of cheese. These figures showed that there were great possibilities for the development of the dairying business, when it was considered that New Zetland was most favourably situated to take advantage of the immense market of the northern hemisphere.

Mb. F. Meenan, King street reports : — Wholesale price only — Oats : feed, medium to prime, Is 2d to Is 4d ; milling, Is 4^d to Is sd. Wheat : plentiful : milling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; fowls', Is Gd to 2s. Chaff: LI 15s to L 2 7s 6d according to quality, bare. Ryegrass and clover hay : L3to L 3 ss. Straw : loose, 28s ; pressed, 25s per ton. Potatoes : 25s to 27s 6d. Market overstocked. Flour : L 6 10s to L 7. Oatmeal : in 251 b bags, LB. Butter : dairy, 6d to 8d ; fresh factory, lid to Is. Eggs : Bd. Bran : L 2 15s. Pollard : L 3 ss, Onions : L 3 lOsfper ton best ; 'Fri?co, £17.