CHEESE & BUTTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1942, Page 4

CHEESE & BUTTER

PRODUCTION IN CANADA. GREAT INCREASES SHOWN. Canadian farmers are responding to the demand for a larger cheese and butter production necessitated by the needs of the armed forces and by the requirements of. Great Britain, an Ottawa report states. Continuing the heavier production noted in recent months, Canada’s cheese production in August advanced to 28,076,322 pounds compared with 23,949,120 pounds in the corresponding month last year, a gain of 17.2 per cent. The total for the first eight months-of this year aggregated 141,494,637 pounds compared with 99,643.147 in the corresponding period of 1941, or an increase of 42 per cent. While cheese is available to the average consumer in the Dominion, a very large quantity of Canada’s output finds its way to Great Britain. Butter production was also heavier in August, advancing 1.8 per cent to 36,164,745 pounds from last year’s figures of 35,528,807. While butter is not yet rationed to the Canadian consumer, appeals have been made through the War Time Prices and Trade Board to be conser-. vative in the use of this product.