BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 October 1884, Page 7

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Messks liigruu an I C(»., makers of chfe^i' iiud biut'T app tr.itu*>, quote fe'ie folio iving statistics in s> recent ci ?ular. Tne information is certainly of si soit to glaoien the hearts of our dairy farmers : *' Thiity years ago (you will ple.ise note this) tiie price of the cheeso nude in the United States of Aiaerica was but 2-1 to 2^ per lb on an average For the entire season. Now, the total amount made throughout the Ut'ited State*, aeconlin r. to the latest statistic.-*, i- 423,000,000 of pounds mmv illy, and the price ha-> double.;, uotwithsfati ling (he enormous increase of production. Thirty or /orty years ago there were made in the United ♦States but forty to fifty mi.lioni of jioun is of liutter annu illy, wort i l)Ut 5 I to u'd per lb for line i>oo Is : now the p-oiuet is worth 1.25J,0.»0,000 of pounds annual 'V, and (he price for fine synods is now. with this stupe lons production, averaged at one falling an I fourju'iice pel lb. And the total v.ilu ■ of the cheese and butter products of the United {Stales is now in round numbers, £60.000,000. It may be interesting at this point to state that 1500 to 2000 tons of cheese are imported into Liverpool, England, weekly. We have stated thete figures in order that our farmer friends, might have some notion of the possibilities of the vast industry. The greatest authorities on dairy matters in the world have stated it as their opinion t.iat it is impossible to produce too much good butter or too much good cheese. The idea has been suggests 1 tiiat New Zealand had no market for the quantity of cheese her factories would produce ; but having interested ourselves very much 111 tl is question, as one likely to tiouble the projectors of dairy factories, Aye may affirm that it will be many, many years, and there will be many hundreds of factories built before hew Zealand can make more than she can sell. In India, China, Japan, the Australasian Colonies, and the islands of the Pacific are all good markets for New Zealand dairy produce, if prepared with especial regard to the iiqiiifuueiils of tiie people of thos« countiies their modes of life, and t«ie ; r religious beliefs (this particularly so in the case of India) ; and therefore, we kel sure tnat with all the teeming millions of people near at h.ind, not to speak of tuc cou&u.ners in our Aiotuer . (Jountiy, th« farmers in New Zealand ' can fes assured in t!ie full consciousness that, t ey cannot pioduee too liiucii of tfuy tiling' Chat is good."