DAIRYING IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 8

DAIRYING IN CANADA.

EXPORT FALLS OFF.

:.<■! ; Tho dairying industry still holds a 'leading place in Canada as fur as out-/ipirtvrs-coneorned, but a striking feature ', lis, tho marked falling-off that has (occurred'of-recent'years in the exports ■i6f'btitior;-ind''choese.' : Tho main reason ■Ifor thie : decline will bo.found in the inI Vreased homevcohsumptidn, ■which is cxj; plained by. the Canadian dairy commisI isieperas duo to tho growth in tho popu- ' laiion and k to the 1 increased purchasing : . (power of ■ tho people. .It 'is, calculated !-.- [that over two-tliirds '<of the dairy pro- \ Buce of "Canada is consumed within the J- country;..and that..an improvement in. quality of both butter and cheese r '.would lead- to still further expansion. ;■• fa..'inst'anoihg;the movement in exports,' : Ijfc-'niay'be nienjioned that 500,000 fewer 1 Iboxes of cheese were . shiboed from i iMontreal.in 1909 than in. 1903, whilst : : ionly 39;343 packages of .butter were ex-" \. Wtfed, as; against 039,'199 packages'in i 2905. In this connection, however, ; it.:;.innst bb pointed . out. that large : quantities of cream have been sent by i : 'the: Canadian factories into the United. IV States' since,tho'-now American . tariff ■ ta-as put into force. Heretofore the duty !'■' »t-ood'- at' 25 ,1 c: per'ilOOlb.. of milk, and I 15 c.-ner lb. of.cream,..whereas the proj- jsenfcvtariff:.allows cream, to enter tho i. lUnited , States nt : 5: c: :per "gallon,• equal j-.'.10'-ll'Vc."..per lb. weight.; This reduc- ': lion .made it more profitable to the !' : Cansdian.factories to ship; 'their cream '.. than., to •turn, it . into . butter/' more i; especially ■as there .was a : scarcity of < ' , inilk,.;-in some .districts-of ';'■'■■ Btatesj amounting, almost to a famine.