CANADIAN DAIRYING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 14

CANADIAN DAIRYING

INCREASED OUTPUTS

STEADY IMPROVEMENT

Production of creamery butter- in Canada during the first half of the present year showed an increase of a little over 8 per cent, above 1935, according to the Canadian Pacific Railways report on agriculture and industry. Production of cheese in the four provinces which'provide most of the Canadian output of cheese recorded an advance of 28.5 per cent, this year as compared with last year. The improvement in the dairy industry during the present year maintains the upward trend which has been in evidence since 1932. The increase in total value of dairy production in 1935 over 1934 was something more than 4 per cent. Production of creamery butter in Canada for the first six months of the year totalled 105,483,0001b as against 97,550,0001b in the first half of 1935. The production of cheese in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia' for the first half of the current year was 34,243,0001b • compared with 26,644,0001b in the first six months of :1935.;

Production of creamery butter in Canada during 1935 is estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at 238,854,0001b as compared with 234,8§2,0001b in 1934. Dairy butter decreased from 109,918,0001b in 1934 to ■106,949,0001b in 1935. The output:of factory cheese rose from 99,346,0001b in 1934 to 100,360,0001b in 1935. Farminade cheese in 1935 is estimated '■ at 1.018,0001b, only 70001b higher than in the previous year. . The production of concentrated whole milk products in 1935 is provisionally estimated at 77,879,0001b as against 67,721,0001b in 1934, an increase of 15 per cent. Concentrated milk • by-products are estimated at 26,964,0001b, an increase of 6.1 per cent. The total milk production! of "Canada in 1935 is estimated at 16,310,836,000 lb, slightly below the production of 16.329,285,0001b in the previous year. Milk used for making dairy' butter, as well as milk used fresh and for other miscellaneous purposes, showed reductions during 1935, but milk used for creamery butter, farm-made cheese, factory cheese, and miscellaneous factory products all registered increases. The monetery value of all dairy products for 1935 was the, highest since 1930, and represented a total advance of 20.4 per cent, over the abnormally low- value ,of 1932. . New Zealand butter exports to Canada and the United States combined for last season ended July 31 were ■1434.t0n5, compared with 20-18 tons forr the season 1934-35.