CANADIAN DAIRY PRODUCTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8340, 29 January 1913, Page 8

CANADIAN DAIRY PRODUCTS

DECLINE IN CHEESE EXPO JITS.

DRAWING ON NEW ZEALAND FOR BETTER SUPPLIES.

Messrs James Alexander, Ltd., a Montreal firm of dairy produce exporters, reporting last month., state: We estimate the Ganadian_ export cheese crop for 1912 as follows: Exported from Montreal, May Ist to December Ist, 1.723,000 boxes; from other ports, 20,000 boxes; total, 1,743,000 boxes, blocks in store at Montreal on November JOth amounted to 115,U00 boxes; in the West (including quantity in store at Toronto and in factories, sold and unsold), 85.0 u-j boxes; east of-Toronto (in store and factories), 25,000 boxes; total, 1,018,000 boxes. “More choose continues to bo used tor the nome trade, and 15 per cent, or present stocks will be required for this purpose. In the last previous nine years, according to official statements, the Canadian export cheese crops have been ..in boxes, each averaging 7bilb): 1911, 2,078.107; 1910, 2,205,832; 1909, 2,076,9i>2; 1908, 2,076.952; 1907, 2,841,960; 1905, 2,730,909; 1904, 2,808,832; 2903, 3,146,000. „ _ “No butter was exported from Ganaoa this season, the home trade absorbing ail we produce (notwithstanding that our exports of cream to the United States are only about two-thirds what they were in 1911). In. addition, we will import from New Zealand and Australia from now to next May quite 150,000 boxes (561 b each). Since May last' Montreal has shipped to points west of the Great Lakes about 160,000 boxes of butter. There has also been shipped from Ontario points west of Toronto about 40,000 boxes, of a total value of 3,000,000 dollars. The W est has also taken since May Ist about 300,000 f'ollars' worth of cheese, and stiil owns for shipment about 15 per cent, of our present stock. This means a gradual decline in exports of dairy products owing to the increased home consumption, which is quite as marked in the East as the West. . To supply this increased demand for butter, milk and cream, milk will have to be drawn from cheese factories unless dairy herds are increased and extended to new districts; but we cannot see any signs of cither at presents