Colonial Produce

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 287, 10 June 1896, Page 2

Colonial Produce

According to > Mr 0. R. Vakntine, ,,- , the United States- are gradually; be- , r ' coming the consumers of their own vast products, and the time is coming when Canada may find her better * market in the Republic at least for her / less balky produce. These factors it t' i; is argued all make for increased de- [ mand from, the colonies. In an into- , resting paper read before the London ' ' Society of Arts he" shows that the imported butter in Great Britain basaacreased in six years' by nearly 1,000,---000 cwt ; that within the same period Canada sent less' by 20,000 cwt; the United States export has also fallen off, and is very variable; Germany f sends less ; France less by 110,000 cwt T.% than in 1889. Thin shortage was made up by Australasia, *md * Denmark. -Australasia had gone up from 87,520 cwt in 1892 to 313,398 in 1895; Sweden from 228,855 to 310,809 ; and Denmark (from 863,532 1,162,670, or two-fifths -of the whole i import. This rate of progression \ on : T, the part of Denmark, Mr Valentine* >_ holds, cannot continue, 'and wtien'the "'- --next total increase of 1,G0Q,000 { ewt ; '- comes to be recorded 1 Australasia must claim an even larger share. The r Arw> gentine sent 138 cwt in the first six months of 1895, and '9000 cwt from that time until' the end of' February- 1 " last. However, Mr ValentinVthinks' New Zealand is in the infancy of ita\; output of all kinds pt produce..*' In Mr Valentine's opinion New'Zea- ■> land will take a leading place in the cheese supply, and mentions that at the annnal meeting of the, Cheshire Dairy Farmers' Association it was pointed out that the competitor Che- » shire, farmers had the, riiost to fear in* the future was New Zealand. -PaY < sing from strictly dairy produce to '' other lines, Mr Valentine referred to bacon, and hams, noting the fact ttoit Great Britain's annual bill, for these is over £10,000,000, and that while Denmark supplies a quarter and,, America a half, Canada is working up" the production of ham and bacon in connecnon with winter dairying} and the trade ingrowing profitable., *,• Having regard to the low prices o&grain^ in New Zealand and its great value m,^ the production of bacon and pork; and >{ the utilisation of the bye-producte' „ from the dairies and factories,', there , should be no difiiculty in the,development of an important industry." With regard to poultry he points outthat - half a million is pauL annually to European countries and that' there is a good opening for a colonial trade. - He mentions that during Ascot week - ; quite a quantity of Adelaide chicken^ were sold at 8s and., some as high as 10s a pair. Fruit, wine, honey, milk (condensed or perserved),- etc., are also referred to.