DAIRYING IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1451, 28 May 1912, Page 8

DAIRYING IN CANADA.

SCARCITY OF LABOUfI. The -following letter' has been received by Mr. Geo. H. Buekeridge, Now Zealand representative for Messrs. Henry A. Lane and Co., Ltd., London, regarding Canacliim dairying prospects:—"We have (he following communication from our Canadian house, which will be of interest to you:— '"Wo are now looking forward to what another season may bring forth,. --it present we are in a; period of extreme prices, both for cheese and butter. •'We do not think that cheese were ever so closely cleaned up in Canada as it is this year, and the trade for Vancouver and western points will take quite n fluantity of new cheese upon the start. We heard talk of some buyers willing to pay 15 cents for the new make, but wo cannot think that any volume will be moved at this price, but we do expect that we shall not see prices below 14 cents for fodder cheese, nor not likely below that until there is a fairly large volume moving. What we have stated in former letters regarding the influence that the high prices will have upon tho volume of/production we think is true; we do not 'believe that there will bo any appreciable increase. \ " 'The writer has, this spring, heard a good deal of complaint, in tact more than hitherto, among the farmers regarding the scarcity of help, and we know of cases where two or three farmers are clubbing together to help each other at busy times, in putting in what crops they are able to take care of themselves on their farms, and turning the rest to pasture lands. It takes some help to care for cows, and wo believe as long as the scarcity of hired help prevails in Ontario we shall not see- much increase ill the number of cows kept.

'"The price of butter continues practically unchanged, but the supply is hardly adequate to the requirements,, and had there not been importations, lx th from New Zealand and United States, we would have experienced extremely high prices. Many believe that butter would have gone to '10 cents, or over, per lb. The receipts are slowly increasing, but thp weather condition continues very cold. The sleighs in this district are still running anywhere outside of the city; which is indeed very exceptional for April -1. However, there is always this encouragement that after a long continued winter in Ontario, we frequently got the bc-t kind of spring after the weather breaks. , "