CONDENSED MILK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 8

CONDENSED MILK.

SepPE FOR NEW ZEALAND TRADE. Perhaps tho lower' Values of dairy produco which seem 'likely' to rulo this Beason/niay. direct the attention of dairy.'; farmers to other produots •: that can bo obtained . from their raw material. 'Or perhaps not. ;• But' their mention is interesting. :'. One of these— condensed milk—is already made in New .Zealand! and.the local articlo is highly, praised by those who claim ttr. be "judges.'' When an extension "of tho c6%eiised milk, industry has been suggested,-m tliO'iiast, a fear has been.'expressed'that tho !• cob--densed milk.industry could not pay'"cnough per gallon for tho-milk. This icar sceiris f-'o' bo a causeless tiling, for tho United. States, whoso local market ueos nearly all thfc butter: which "Uncle Sam" can produce,, Exported 2£. million dollars' worth of condensed : njilk last year. Obviously those who are •condensing this inilk are able to pay the American dairy farmers a .'good price, , apd' fclicre appear to bo no reasons for difforanfc conditions here. ■•,•■■'■■

Looking round generally at the great; wido world which even Now Zealand must follow,' it seems that tho Oriental and tropical countries are'tho chief sections of tho\world to which this product, is distributed. ,'Giiba was tho largest purchaser in 1908, Japan .ranking next, then Canada; tlra'Philippine : Islands, China,, Mexico, British South Hong T liong, Asiatic Russia, and Portuguese Africa. The value of. the exports of ..'.this ■single , articlo to tho- Philippine Islands 'n 1908-157,602. dollars—is .-. more thaa America's total exports of aJI kinds of iTaer'Ohondiso to the Philippines in 1898, a decade, eaa'lier, when the total merchandise, doniosiic and foreign, to those islands was 127,804 dollars, of which 371 dollars i was condensed milk. To Cuba tho growth; has also boon rapid, tlio,value of condensed'ini'k exported to that island in 1897 being 70;485' dollars; in 1900, 442,610 dollars'; m .1906, 665,277 dollars; and ill 1008, 905,068 dollars. Japan has also increased rapidly her takings of this particular, class of; American exports, the value of condensed inilk exported , to that country in.1898 being 76,106 dollars; in 1900, 99,433 dollars; inIOOS, 497,862 dollars; aii'd in 1908, 666,370. To China the exports of 1898' wore 23,748 dollars; in 1904, 76,134 dollars; and in 1908, 87,034. ,To Mexico'-ijjtf has ben rapid'aiid largely 'coincidental' with the inorease ill the nunibor of-American's, engaged in mining and other industristl; enterprises in that country, the total value of. milk exported to Mexico in 1897' being but ll;503 dollars; in 1900, 26.57S dollars; and ui 1908, 79,023 dollars. Evon such distant. and out-of-the-way places as the Canary Islands, Liberia, Dutch Eust Indies,. Korea, Ecuador, British and Dutch &uianas,' Bermuda, 'and : tho,various West,lndian Islands show greater , or loss takings of this articlo. The number of countries to. which ■ coudenjod • milk Vwas sent in 1908 aggregated over fifty. '.' '