ENGLISH CHEESE PRODUCTION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 3758, 7 June 1918, Page 3

ENGLISH CHEESE PRODUCTION.

* There v a forious scarcity of importer! cheese, and purchasers get only enough to meet a proportion of their needs. For months past there has) also been a singular dearth of English cheese. Pnces of English cheese last season were based on fixed price 3 for milk, and there is now a desire on tbe part of the auihoii ies that more eh 633 should ba produced Tha paces fixed for mi'k from April to September n?xt are regarded by tbe fanners ag 100 low. and experience shows that it is useless to fix prices that do not off-jr a fair margia of profit to the producer There should be no repetition of unbusinesslike method ia dialing with tbe matter, as as was tbe case with meat. The farmer will do that which pays him be3t, sell milk or make cheese ; but the price of tbe latter commodity nuitba fixed at a reasonable baais'. The cost of cheese preduatioa has gone up very much, rennet, cheese makeis , . wages, salt, and in fact, all ingrtdients contributing their quota It must also ba remembered that when cheese making was given up, the presses and other apparatus were scrapped or disposed of, aud- cannot be easily replaced in these days, unless with Government assistance. The production of English cheese therefore depends upon the sym pathetic consideration of these matters by the authorities, ''Grocer." March 2a.