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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 September 1910, Page 4

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COLONIAL DAIRY PRODUCE

Messrs W. Weddel and Co. send us their weekly market report, d'ated London, August, as follows: —' Butter.—The wet weather still rendais haymaking a most difficult and expensive work, and in the end much of it is damaged. The pastures, however, are in good condition as regards quantity, hnt tbe season has passed for 'best quality grass.

There is practically nothing doing in colonial bnttef of any kind except occasional sales .from cold stores of secondary quality, the first having gone into consumption. The small quantity of Canadian on our markets is new season's, but the amount shipped this year from ■May 1 to July 16 is only 5210 packages. JRefeni'dng to the cable from Melbourne mentioned in our wport last week, it is explained by the Agent-General for \ ictoria that the" estimated 20,000 tons of /butter to be exported from Vicoria in be coining .season will consist of 15,000 tons to the United Kingdom, the remaining 0000 tons to bo exported to the East; South Africa, WestAustralia, and other places. This menus an increase to this country of 2000 tons, which is a reasonable estimate. The Ocsova has loft Australia this week with 1300 boxes of butter; some of it doubtless is new season's.

foreign butter oontinues in plentiful supply, and the Copenhagen official quotation is <lo\m two kroner. Siberian is rising in value in Siberia more rapidly than in nor markets, owing chiefly to the diminishing make brought about by hot and dry conditions, combined with competition between British and German buyers, not for current consumption but for storage until, the late autumn and winter months.

_ Cheese.— The long expected adjustment in prices between .white and coloured cheese has suddenly begun, and coloured this week has advanced oigh teenpence per cwt nml i* j s oxepectocl that nest woek it will be 011 a parity with white. Choicest coloured ,Xeu- Zealand is making 50s Gel, ami..white 575. Canadian is one or two shillings below those figures. n