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'laiii.i.s puillished in respect to the dairy produce trade with Great .Britain, give a .special prominence to New Zealand butter and cheese cuminuditic.s. The Dominion ranks next to Denmark, which in 1922 sent 1.12.1.79(1 cu t of butter to the United Kingdom valued at £11.959,031. For 1921 the Danish export was 1,802.2!)5civt. valued til .£'16.812.520. These figures enable the reader to appreciate what a splendid

customer Britain is to Denmark- in the blitter trade. New Zealand ranks second in supplies. For 1922 the Dominion sent Home 1,101,-I II; wt of a value

of £9.310,701, while for 1921 the export was 1,110,765, and the value £10,205,809. In commenting; on the figures as a whole, a London financial journal re-

marks that a rapid increase in the production of butter lias taken place in New Zealand in recent years, and there is little doubt that that go-ahead Dominion will become the foremost dairying country in the world. Even though there has been a break ill butter prices,

and at present a disinclination to develop further pastures, yet the attention which is being devoted in N< u Zealand to increasing the yield by •breeding hotter cows should tend to increase rather than decrease, the out-

put of dairy products. The dairy industry in Australia has also progressed, and both this and the New Zen land product are well known in the •English markets. For the year 1922-21 the Common wealth oxnrted flutter to

the amount of 73.075.0001 b., valued at ■CC.092.-17-1. as against 127.147.00011>.. valued at £7.908.073 in 1921-22. In Canada also dairying is an important phase of the pastoral life of the Dominion. and fo the year ended ALirrh, 192!. ibuttcr "as shipred t-i i! - - an’.innt of Id.C4S.nO3H>.. valued at 55.070.C01. as compared with 21.901.5781 b. valued at .53.203.108. for tin* r.rovious year. The dairy industry is expanding in South Africa, where at the present time there are 70 creameries. 15 cream depots, and 12G cheese factories. Vast possibilities exist for the development- of the industry, provided that South African farmers regard dairying more as a business and less as a sideline. Increased production will depend to a large drpre? on ilvvelopment under closer c:-t-

tlcmcnt schemes liaring irrigable land. Shipments cf butter front tlie Union of S. Africa last year totalled C00.8001b.. valued at £3-1.672. as against 1.472.0781 b., valued at 080,800 in 1022. In regard to cheese, New Zealand leads, the most formidable rival being Canada. In 1022, the quantity of cheese from the Dominion imported into the United Kingdom, was 1,201.770 cwt. of a value of £5,553,!)57, and in 102:1 1.363.654 cwt. valued at £7,507,511. The Canadian figures were:—lo22. 010.012. value Cll 10.T.T03. and 1023, 1,001, !02cwt.. £5.231.205. The total value c.f cheese bought in Kngland was £12.137.818 in 1022, and LT5,200,710 in 1023. The high position of Xew Zealand is to la* appreciated. Relatively over the same period Australia in its cheese export dropped hack, the return for 1023 being only £231 .SO7. as against £188,372 in the previous year. In hutter and cheese- Xew Zenla.iid.aent upwards of £18,0(10.000 in value to the Homeland, a fact which establishes beyond doubt ‘tin- imports ncle of the dairying industry to this country.