FUTURE OF BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 8

FUTURE OF BUTTER AND CHEESE.

i •' -"''-AN OPTIMIST'S REASONING. "A remark. in' The Dominion a! few . days ago. seemed to me to have considerably more importance than I think most people are likely' 'to. attachto • said i a commercial man interested in- tlio : but|i tcr -^business, 'yesterday, "Jn an- article ; -in"which it. was. urged that cheese should ..he marketed locally in a.riper.stage than- \ th'!it in which it is' retailed-it- was; remirkecl: that cheese is. one of the chief articles of diet of numerous workmen' iii ; .England:'. .' ■ .' ... . •:."That, is the. point, which is, going; to ' ke-Valuable to', the' dairying; industry'"of i thjs.country,", he.continued. "I am tully .- convinced that cheese—all cheeso includi.ing our own cheese-^is. going, ,ts>._cpin.Q. t' mpjeintq demand than .ever.. it . has. been. :'Chee£d is "a very valuable* food,'arid the j" fact,- it seems, has been recognised by r. workers- in- London and other English ; cities.. '.Mind..'yon,-I think it .will be ' some time before , the .New Zealand work- ' men'Tealise . the general value of cheese j-/t«-.lunch ..and meal ".purposes, .but.- Wey |-will, realise it the, quicker if. they ..are I-sold'a.moro.matareil article! ; I . .'"From"what ,I have learned from Lon- !. don- niid. other, sources; it; looks', bs '{bftjigh (;. the' for cheese "will'■> send •up 4mprice] Of, that "arid will draw ■; a number of factories - into' the ; manufacturing .of that product. Then ( there will be less butter available, which should .send 'up prices on'.'that .'line, 'for i'.tlii demand for cheese is not likely seriously to affect tie demand for-butter.". , ;; It was pointed out that there has" been I a'fall : in butter', and that the-latest adi vice's-stated that the market was dull. • There has been a fall of several shillings : in' tho last, six weeks. That he admitted, s and, added that he quite' expected that -those.speculators who had advanced somej thing'over elevenpence for -butter would ; lose .money. "But," he continued, "l am ; looking - ahead, anij I feel certain there - a Te good; days in store for butter and 'vtneese."