CANADIAN DAIRYING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 12

CANADIAN DAIRYING

MILK PRODUCTS EXPORTS

CHEESE OUTPUT DECLINES

'Evening Post," January 2.

Entry of New Zealand butter into tho Canadian market is a matter of the utmost importance to producers in this country. The trade in any case is likely to be seasonal, but it comes at a time when New Zealand has butter to spare and Canada's production is subject to winter restrictions. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company's November review of agricultural and industrial progress deals briefly with the dairy production in Canada and it shows that for the year just ceased the output of creamery butter was greater than for 1934. Figures ior cheese are incomplete, but the drift has been downward. Canada is one of the world s largest exporters of cheese, but exports ot butter have recently been small and for some years- there has been a balance of imports. , . , . The general trend in the dairy industry of Canada over a considerable period has been away from the production of cheese and towards increased production of butter. The explanation for this lies m the proportionately greater increase of urban than rural population and the-conse-quent greater demand for buttei and fresh, milk and cream.

INCREASED URBAN DEMANDS. There has been at the same timethough, for the most part recently—an increase in the output of concentrated milk products, a large portion of which goes into the export market. 8 The production of creamery buttei for the first nine months of 1930 in Canada amounted to WWmto. During the same portion of 1934 the output was 191,356,0001b.. During the first half of 1935 production of creamery butter in the Dominion was below 1934, but the third quarter showed sains. For the month of September the IS last year was 27,598 0001b as compared with 23,819,0001b in 19.34. Production of creamery butter in 1934 exhibited a gain of 6 per cent, over §33,rtotag from 219,232,0001b in the former to 233,047,0001b in the latter year Exports of butter from Canada ir! 1933 amounted to 4 1,431',2001b, as against imports of 1.3771371b; while last year imports were 2,873 5621b as compared with exports of only 428,300 lb. CHEESE EXPORTS TO BRITAIN. Production of cheese in five provinces of Canada for the nine months of 1935 amounted to 79,101,0001b. Production of factory cheese in 1934 totalled 99,754,0001b, as against lli;i46|0001b in 1933, a decline of 10 per cent Exports of cheese in 1934 amounted to 61,167,0001b, as compared with 74,168,000b in 1933. Of the total exports in 1934 the United Kingdom took 58,076,0001b. •„,„,. Production of concentrated milk tor the nine months of 1935 in Canada totalled 85,551,0001b, as compared with 74,542,0001b in 1934, an increase of oyer 14 per cent. The largest item in the production last year was evaporated milk at 54,766,0001b, with skim milk powder second at 15,353,0001b. EVAPORATED MILK TRADE. Evaporated milk plays the-leading role also in exports,, providing 18,657,000 lb out of total exports of concentrated milk amounting to 25836,0001b These exports showed a decline in 1934, the 1933 exports being 27,700,0001b. Condensed milk showed much the greatest decrease; the decline in evaporated milk was small and tnere was an increase in powdered milk. Imports of concentrated milk products into the Dominion are small. Thejirpduction of concentrated milk products in Canada in 1934 totalled 93,668,0001b approximately, as compared with 85,281,0001b in 1933. DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION.

The Canadian people are large consumers of butter but relatively small users of cheese. In 1934 the per capita consumption of butter was 30.921b, of cheese 3.641b, and of concentrated milk products 6.281b. The total, consumption of butter in the Dominion is estimated at 335,029,0001b, cheese 39,410.000 lb, and concentrated milk products 68,019,0001b. J , . Most of the butter produced in Canada is normally consumed within the country, but less than two-fifths ol the cheese. The Greater Dominion is normally a small exporter of butter, but does a considerable export trade in concentrated milk products and ranks third among the cheese exporting countries of the world.