A TARIFF BLUNDER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 8

A TARIFF BLUNDER.

v.-'AND" A CANADIAN' WINDFALL.* -. yfifsilikit'Jldrieh-l?ayne : tariff .was on . ifiipassage it'.seem'ed. to .escape, the-von-'detjpl;:eagle evc-of critics-.(sa'ys an Amcri- . /MnHpapsrii.'.as w?IU as' Congress- that in : tKfe schedule a- most serious',blur.- , . dej' .aßd iricoDfisten.cy was being enacted. -The.ta'rift pnibutter is six cents a pound, '. while ; tlie "rate on- cream- is' fiv6- cents' a gallon.-' .'•• - ; ■ .. .In 100-pounds of 40 per, cent cream there • are" 4S| pounds 'of butter,'. the '<lu(y . on which; 'itentered, as .-butter,- • would' lie "'2.BB:.dollars. -But coming in as cream— ; ab'dut- ll gallons—the ibutter slips through ■' with'.the payment jof a duty of, fay, CO .- cents. Tlie- consfqucncc is that' cream is & going in' to the United States from Caur/'nda in- tGe wholesale, to the. very serious' " 'diminution of the exports in' '-Canadian, .'.butter and cheese. . Qf. course, the richer . the cream in butter-fat, the less duty the ! butter content pays, as; the rate is five ' . cents , a : gallon .without: regard to richness. < The. Canadian farmers were quick to see .this loop hole, and have taken large advantage, from, it. .

The . country is looking well;' along the Main'Trunk'line; - . . ..-'A-new apparatus for drying milk (milk :■ - powder) "is-reported from Germany/ It consists of o large closed tank in which are,-two heating drums revolving in opposite directions, and set one above , the other,...closo;,together,.,but .not touching :each-other;-. The lower one picks up- tho Will;' from the lower, part -of the tank . "and when the, partiall}* dried-milk film is at the:'highost.>point:.nearest the upper drum, : a'scraper loosens it from the'lower drum .ard 'turns it upside down, on -to the upper drum, where the drying is completed,- and from whore, another scraper ■ '.-TeninVes-it to a chute. Air blasts-play oh-both drums, removing-the moisture through the. upper part of the tanlc