STIR IN CHEESE PRICES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 8

STIR IN CHEESE PRICES.

,: : r;:'; ; '^--f : ITS'.IIEANING.;:': :,,- .:: The cabled ; ;roport; published yesterday.' ; that Canadian stocks of' chesss .'aro'sooo .'tons "short of: the: estimated .qiioiitityy -'fails.: to enlighten us as to what is really /".the estimated quantity."- ■,It apparently, morely.cdnfirms.tho', views .hold in New Zealand all the season, : that the Canadian output .would be below tho avoragc, and, while .that confirmation is .welcome,' it is not :exactly".fresh news.' It is probnble,- however, that the buying interests at, Home are, only '.now' beginning to', lot .themselves .'recognise the;- fact, and / a .slight-:rise .of cheese -prices-may reasonably -bo", expected. :.-'- '~.;: '/■: V.-' .;■".'' "/Indeed,-:.' a /,ri63.\ is '.absolutely-necessary prices', which have: lately' been .paid.in,Ne'w>Zealand are :to. be. BuyerV. have paid as-much- as sJd;i' and even;sJd.,. per. lb., which: is equal; to '575. 6d. per .cwt.j so .that'th?y are bound'to :sell : ;.at 585.; or. 595., ; or lose, money! '.',-Th'o , New; Zealand cheese is : now ' only.'; just ..beginning 'to. assume; substantial proportions -on the L Home:'market, and the /rise if. it >; comes: now will be v almost fully realised by;: out. cheese "farmers. \ ; This. improvement will,.bevery/welcome news among 'the: dairy-farmers, l , for /it. :'• had lateiy .;been suggested by somo' that they .wererin'danger - of .losinV'thpirf.place , ofhonour - above , the ; butter .rnon : as -the ; recipients' higher DavmontsDer'pound for'" butter-fat.;., The ouestion ..of. whether "cheese ;pr,;butter,will pay best this season .is -by •',no mean's :■ vet'. MM / in.- favour, I ; of ■■,the-: butter.''men.\- ; --/v.'.',: •'.■;•:'■.■;;•■ r''.-''-.■:!■•■,■',