THE CHEESE INDUSTRY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9671, 9 December 1909, Page 3

THE CHEESE INDUSTRY.

PROBABLE HEAVY SUPPLIES,

A FIVEPENNY CHEESE IN SIGHT. When dairymen were being advised to pay nurc attention tj cheese than to butter owi.ig to a short i<;e in the Canadian it was pointed out in th2SO columns that there would be no shortage in Canada, that ii, compared with thiTprevious season, owing to the splendid recovery experienced from the drought in the early Canadian summer. According to late advices from Canada the shipments of eneese from Canada for the week ending October 9th amountd to 01,396 cases, against 56,379 cases for the corresponding week of last year. From May Ist to October 9th tha export was 1,633,309 '.:ascs, against 1,605,407 for the correspondingperiod of 1908. Now, added to the Canadian increase, we have the face that there had been an exceptionally large make at Home, while Victoria has a surplus of cherse over local and interState requirements which it is intended to forward to London In dealing with the cheddarcheese trade in October, the "Mark Lane Express" heads its review thus;— "A .Slump aad its Causes." After leferring the unsatisfactory prices ruling at the leadig cheesa fairs of the country (pi*-' ty of the cheese charging hands at 48s to 50s) the review goes on to say: "Stores are at the present time pretty full up with colonial produce of competing quality. The high prices have checked the outflow to the grocers. Leanness and unripeness to a somewhat unusual extent are against the maker, and grocers in the large centres are holding back in the expectation of getting what they require at less ou:lay than if they stocked at once. Dealers consequently prefer not to overload themselves, and refrain from touching the goods at the makers' figures. . . .. The sellers have to consider a couple of important points—the common depression of trade on the one hand, and the price of bacon, et r :., on the other, as well as the reports as to the beef supply of America, which two latter may tend to harden prices before long." A private communcialion from Tooley Strust received by the writer goes to show that men at the market are picturing a position which will mean only 5d to the New Zealand pro.lucer. Certainly there is a big supply on the Home markets, and the purchasing power of the consuming public could be better. Cheese will certainly not be the payable product it was last year, and those factories which have stood to butter will probably be rewarded for their consistency.