CANADIAN BUTTER & CHEESE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1447, 23 May 1912, Page 10

CANADIAN BUTTER & CHEESE.

MANUFACTURED TOO CHEAPLY. The greatest evil in connection with the factory end of tho dairying industry in Canada at the present time, according to the Dominion Dairy Commissioner', Mr. J. A. Ruddock, is the extremely low rate which prevails for manufacturing. Pri:vately;owned factories are being run at an unreasonably small margin over actual cost. Tho result is that owners are compelled to carry on the manufacture of butter and cheese in altogether too cheap a manner. • They cannot afford to pay decent salaries for cheesemakers and buttermakers and the equipment is of the most meagre kind in too many instances. The cost of manufacture is increasing like everything else, "but the rate charged for manufacture is in many eases lower than it. was 10 years ago. The tendency is bad in every way. Mr, Ruddock believes that tho natrons of factories are ready to pay more money if they are properly shown that they will get value in a better service being rendered to them. It could hardly bo expected that the privately owned factories in Eastern Ontario will introduce cool curing to any extent unless they receive some encouragement. They really cannot afford it at present and the industry is suffering a great loss because cool curing is not general.