MARCH OF- A BUTTER RIVAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 8

MARCH OF- A BUTTER RIVAL.

' >( HOME FIRM'S OPINION. A letter handed to a IIOMrNIoN representative. some .time-'ago -by- a buyer forn London firm of butter merchants includes statements w.hich, give an idea of the growth'of the dairy produce industry ' in one v of our rival !fi The! firm from whom the'letter'emaiia- - ted does a big trade in Siberian .butter, and last' winter .predicted a prosperous '.. season, - for the producers of the big • Asiatic; country! j Their .vfovs.. were- . . criticised, and the commnnication froth. which "''extracts are hereunder to, bo quoted : substantiation' of the. aforementioned predictions is tho chief object. • It was claimed for a start that the s.cep: Dical 'critics' had -negatived their own . estimation of the Siberian season by the "circulation of a report emanating from : themselves that the exports of Siberian butter this year .(1910) will exceed- those of i1909 by 50 per cfiit." Subsequently the following passage oc- .. 'curs in the letter:—'Since the first part of January up till the end of April last 191,437 cask's of Siberian'butter passed Koirgan Station, Baltic bound, and' these .. figures -represent ait increase Of - 73,613 casks, equal to G2 per cent, more than for tho 'same, period ..of Jast T ypaE.,.„ I So early'in'the'year'siich V"higli-tide in ; : Siberian supplies must be without a paral- .'. lei in the history of Siberian butter. Siberia may, therefore, dominate tho yosi- - tion right away, and cxerciso an ure- ' Ristible influence over other markets by v. . . ehEer';wcjght of ; prolific abundance."