FARMING NEWS.
RURAL' RAIvINGS. A representative attendance of ovei fortv was present at a meeting convened bv the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association, in conjunction with tho Franklin Agricultural and Pastoral Society, when a district pig council with headquarters at Pukekohe was *°Askcd to give an eplanation of the difference between the guaranteed price ot ls 0 9-16 d per lb and the company’s payment, of slightly more than Is 2d per U. for finest quality buttorfat Mr G J- Par I'inA General manager of the j\.A. Loop erative Dairy Co., Ltd,) said this was dun to what was known m the industry as “over-run.” In a pound of butter then, was a considerable quantity of moisture some salt nnd a small proportion of other constituents of milk, which in he aggre_ f c f ThTGovTrnm?npf figure for over run vvi,; 21 75 per cent. Thus, five pounds of buttorfat would make six pounds of bi ttct
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 5
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161FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 5
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