BUTTER AND CHEESE PROSPECTS.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 88, 13 April 1923, Page 6

BUTTER AND CHEESE PROSPECTS.

It is very difficult to gfve any reasonable forecast as to the market, far either butter or cheese, reports the National Dairy Association Secretary' (Mr. T. C. Br^sh). Very large shipments of both butter and cheese are reaching Great Britain from New Zealand during April, representing the heavy shipments which left this Dominion early in March. Shipments from Australia have ceased, and the Commonwealth Is now drawing butter from New Zealand. The general feeling regarding butter is optimistic, and higher prices are expected. There is, however, an uneasy feeling regarding cheese, even although at present the market price is high an compared with butter. Buyers of Canadian cheese will fioon commence to operate in that Dominion, and there is generally a tendency for prices in Great Britain to recede when buyers are making contracts iv. Canada. Mr. Brash, howr ever, is of the opinion that companies with cheese making plants vrlll be well adviaed to stick consistently to the making of cheese. The importations of butter into Great Britain for the first month of the present year again show an increase, whereas cheese shows a decrease of 2o,7BScwt.