FARMING NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 10 February 1928, Page 3

FARMING NEWS.

1 Canadian Trade Treaty OPPONENTS’ CONTENTION. FARMERS DRIVEN OUT OF BUISNESS. OTTAWA, Feb. 9. Attacking thc Trade Treaty, Mr George T. AlcNutt, Conservative Member for Colchester, claimed that the dumping of Australian and New Zealand blitter was driving dairy farmers in the Maritime Provinces out of busiMr J. E. Sinclair, Liberal, doubted whether butter prices had dropped. If Canada was to be a nation within the Empire, how could she consider repudiating the Treaty. The surplus dairy products of Canada found a market in Britain, who controlled butter prices. Canada was quite able .to compete in the British market with the Antipodes. WHEAT STAGNATION. LEADING IMPORTER’S OPINION. LONDON, Feb. 8. Discussing the unsatisfactory condition of the wheat trade, a leading importer said that the stagnation was largely due to the quantity afloat from all thc exporting countries—B,l9o,ooo quarters, which was 50,000 in excess of this time last year, when European requirements were considerably less. Also a large proportion of .the grain afloat vas not yet sold. In those conditions, millers naturally were holding off until the last moment. BUTTER PRESERVATIVES. CLASHING OF TRADE INTERESTS. LONDON, Feb. 9. The clashing of trade interests was responsible for the wide divergence of opinion on the effect of prohibition of preservatives in butter. The traders who have opposed the measure throughout ar e presently returning .to the attack on thc grounds that Dominion butters suffer at the hands of Continental. Well informed and disinterested persons point out New South Wales and Queensland by concentrating on improved pasteurisation and unpreservatised butter, are virtually unaffected, but A ictoria, which has not made the same effort, finds unpreservatised butte 1 unsatisfactory. It is the opinion m London that any overtures to the ' '’ f Ilealtl ‘ Sl,CUl<l bC ‘ “ a<le