DAIRY PRODUCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 29 May 1912, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE

PROSPECTS' IN CANADA. Mr. Geo. 11. Buckeridge, New Zealand representative for Messrs Henry A. Lane and Co., Ltd., London, has received the following letter from his firm regarding the position of the Canadian dairying prospects:—"Further to our letter of January 26 and February 21, we have the following communication from our Canadian house which will be of interest to you: 'We are now looking forward to what another season may bring forth. At present we are in a period of extreme I prices, both for cheese and butter. We do not think that cheese was ever so closely cleaned up in Canada as it is this year, and the trade for Vancouver ajid Western Points will take quite a quantity of new cheese upon the start. We beard talk of some buyers willing to pay 15 cents for. the new make, but we cannot think that any volume will be moved at this price, but we do expect that we shall not see prices below 14 cents for fodder cheese, and not likely below that until there is a fairly large volume moving. What we have stated in former letters regarding the inuence that the liigfh prices will have upon the volume of production we think is true; we do not believe that there will be any appreciable increase. The writer has, this spring, heard a good deal of complaint—in fact, more than hitherto—among the farmers regarding the scarcity of help, and we know of cases where two or three farmers are clubbing together to help each other at busy times, in putting in what crops they are able to take care of themselves on their farms, and turning the rest into pasture lands. It takes some help to care for cows, and we believe as long as the scarcity of hired help prevails in Ontario, we shall not see much increase in the number of cows kept. " 'The price of butter continues practically unchanged, but the supply is hardly adequate to the requirements, and had there not been importations, both from New Zealand and United States, we would have experienced extremely high prices. Many believe that butter would have gone to 40 cents or over per lb. The receipts are slowly increasing, but the weather conditions continue very cold. The sleighs in this district are still running anywhere outside the city, which is indeed very exceptional for April 4. However, there is always this encouragement, that after a long-con-tinued winter in Ontario we frequently get the best kind of spring after the weather breaks.'"