FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 128, 28 June 1909, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

WHAT CANADA IS DOING

GOOD PROSPECT OF SATISFACTORY I PRICES. The most important question before Xuiv Zealand dairymen to-day is the prospect of cheese during the forthcoming season. We are rapidly increasing our output of this commodity, aTid

hl me present time many dairy companies arc wuvoriug .between the policy of making butter and that of making cJioese. We are evidently destined to be one of the most important eheddar cheese-making countries in the world. At the present moment it is well that many of our factories should relinquish butter manufacture and turn to cheese give up making waterlogged butter and devote their em:,, -s to an artieie in connection with wuui faking is :iot so tempting a matter. Xew Zealand | butter is not a thing to co;ijure with at time on British markets; Xew Zealand cheese. Therefore, let us make cheese. Of course, producers will be guided in this matter by the market prospects. And a'o far as the next season is concerned there is every reason to anticipate remunerative values, The barometer of the London eheddar cheese ' market is the Canadian supply, and this, it is gratifying to know, will not show any great expansion this season, probably not showing sufficient increase to make the supply equal to the demand even with our increase taken into account. j

Ihe latest at! vices from Canada (dated Montreal, Stli April) show that there was a fairly heavy shipment for the opening week of navigation, the total aggregating about 12,000 boxes. The receipts of cheese into Montreal for the week amounted to 11,036 boxes, as compared with 16,388 boxes for the corresponding week of last year. This shows the April mate this year to have been about thirty per cent. lees than last year's'. This shortage was respoqsible for big .prices being offered for Canada's spring ehces®, the great bulk of the cheese selling from 12c to 12y 4 c per pound. After the first heavy shipments had got away, prices fell 'by V,o from the top rates. While the cheese output has not increased, the prices for butter on the local markets were very Satisfactory, ranging from 21c to 24y 4 c. Prices, howevpr,. ■were expected to go lower than tins in the near future, as receipts were steadily increasing. Prices would have to come down to an export basis, predicts a Montreal authority, and they were not within 2c of that'level at the end of the first week in May. From this it 'will be spen that the~e in 110 .great inducement for butter factories in Canada to turn to cheese, so that our great rival is' not likely to increase its output this season to a rate . which would seriously pnterfere with market values ia Britain.—Wellington Times.