Canada's Dairy Trade with England.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 6

Canada's Dairy Trade with England.

At a time when all who are interested in the agricultural prosperity of this colony are anxiously inquiring and considering as to the best means to adopt to further the establishment of a profitable dairy trade with. tho old country, it is instructive to learn oil we can concerningtheexperierieeF in this line ot a country like Canada, whiph has totyears maintained an extensive dairy trade with England. .This trade has, been chiefly in cheese, and the'following extract fiom the Pull Mall Ga~ette\vi\l show our readers how necessary it i» to m.ilce t-pecia! c:\or.tiorie to produce tho best' article, and to place it upon the English market in the best condition, it we would hope to maUc the sale of f^ew Zealand buttei in London and other large British cities, a source of sure and steady profit to our dairy farmers. Canada,' stys our London contemporary, f-ends us an enormous quantity of cheese, but her hold upon the English market hap been loosening year by year. The Dominion is not, however, content to see Donmark, Normandy,' and other eoun tries omb her, and Mr W. H. ■ Lynch, of Danville, Quebec, a recognised 'authority on the daily 'trade 'Of Canada, has 'bden pursuing inquiries in this country for some months' p^sr, Xitlr 1 a view* to enlighte"n hia - countrymen, "representative of \s\&^ Canadian Qa%etLi>has had ah intei'view ivith 'Mr L>heh, aucf has ascertained 1 his opinion 1 both 1 of the 1 • cause and the remedy ,ofjthe decline in {he 'butter exports ,frOm Canada. '- The cause is simply this-.* . In, the cho,e«e , trade Canada has • forded, her* way ahead of almost 'all 'Competitors by her method of manufacture, byjrt>be>-uniformly good quality oMiui 1 pro-, id'ue.to?jand' by thej.'itteation she 'has paid, to \the need of the British markets'. .v-Jn -the better- trade ; she' has ,don^,np_ne of those things, and the result is written plainly in these-. figures ofCariadiah. exports since the opening of the.dppad,e :-r- < '

QrHh'6'<!)ne hand bhere^is' j{,' ! st6atiy 'an«|, alTricJsti continuous d^'crcas,e' in the butter exr pprts of ''panada, 'on ihp 6^hei ;! hatKi,"an equally fiteady'ranq" c'pnjjinuousY^increase tlio" chfee^e 1 e,k^prts^ '^ Thb iGmeriy is i^c^irnj^L'oVement.of tjhe 4 quality of the 'bpttir afld llie ,'mothoci"^ prickW^'and truusAipinentl, arid ' adeqiiaLp "'p^bvisiQti for ,du,fcribufcion in Greafc Britain!' 1 'With. 'at s .bcntipi? to thdEe'bo'ncli Lions Mr , Lynch be'lieveV'bhe're^'is^ tlie' prospect' j of 'a ■ perniAne f nf aVid "profitable j rnarltot' jhere foi 1 Canadian butter, j ' '"/ /S/ S ' J ', ' ( !

,i, i Mr- IJiy ,,'lns pector , ,of Schools, has dif.ppyered fossil mq^feaclrers in^pliocen^/le-^ posibs'near Gisbqrne.l , JThi^ja ot^ci'epfcific 1 val ye, .completely ppgebtihgjbji^ theory that 1 fche^mp^^^did jiob/exi^jji^^QWjZpa^landin l /posJjjp^9c4nflti^es.'..- | ; vrr J; ) '*' '"^ .» t . rl |7,«, ,|

Butted Exports. I ' ' Checso Exports. 1880 .. 18,535,3621b 1880.. .. 40,368,6781b' ■1831 '.'■».'. -17,049,491 lb, 188L.W .-/. 49,255,5231b 1883 t^.J 15,161,839 1b 1882..j/» '„' 50,807,049 Ib. ,1883 '.-. #,106,447 )b 1883,. .. 58,041.3871b -1884 .. 2,075,537 1b 1884 69,755.423,1b 1885 .. 7,330.7881b 1885 V. "' -.. Jf 79.65b,36f1b 1886 .. 4,618,7411b l&8b-i> ,' .« 78,002,^7 Ib 41887. 4 1887. ..^ ,5 485,5091b 1887.- , .. , 78,770,^ lb