PRICES AND STATISTICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1099, 11 April 1911, Page 8

PRICES AND STATISTICS.

HOW DAIRY PRODUCE FIGURES ARE AFFECTED. It was stated in these; columns a. fewdays ago that 'a local'merchant was of ; th'o opinion that the present high price for cheese would induce companies which [had intended going aver to'butter-making during the 'winter to continue cheese making. Further inquiries indicate that •it'is almost certain that several of the 'large concerns which have dual plants and aro liow making checso will continue ■to do so throughout the winter. ' Tho decision will have an effect on our

■ Jxport- figures for dairy produce—the efLfeet of making the total, cheese shipment p-eater and the butter shipment less than \ would have been the case had the season i been normal. • ■ Two season's, ago the winter factories ! made • a great cjeal of cheese and much j less butter than usual. The result Was • that the cheese figures for the year were I high. In the following season the manuifacture.wiis oil the usual footing, and ! when the statistics come out it will : probably be found that tho cheeso export ■ was about eight' per. cent less than. on ' the" previous season. ( It was generally expected at tho begin- '■ niiig of this dairy season that a rccord i. quantity of butter would be exported, and j not only a bare record, but a big one. [The season, however, has not been a (■good one, and' even with all the extra [ cows being milked this year tho increase : over last season in tho matter of export : is only two per ccnt.