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Canada a Dairying I Tui"Tetuan reputation abroad of might have produced more, of the sociatiou, of recent organization, ie
G'Ot,lCitrj/ ; Qauwdina e6eos1, compared with fittest milk nod butter in the world. llrutnisi.ug ul' niueh awl, to the
butter iuduetry. Tile Nova Scotia
Dairymon's nese/elution zea live or.
ganteation, and for ttbuut five years
has done good pieneer work. There
ie an assorhiatinn in 111auitebe, of
whose practical work I cannot speak
from pereoual Ituowledge. The On•
terio Agriculture! College, at 0Indent
has made a good beginning with its
working creamery, hitt it doubtless
has its beet work yet to do. It is
now doing gond experimental work,
and perhaps batter lecture work out-
side among the farmers, aucl the
head of this departruont hoe abilities
of tbo bighese order, which fit him
there are the added advantages of well to do a great work for general
impart) dairy cattle, rich, sweat Canadian dairying. The Dominion
prairie grasses, uature'e purest &i1, experimental farm at Ottawa lune
cool summer uigbte and, let it be nut yet put itself on ooze record uf
added, a people of outerpriee and things accomplished, but it way be
intelligence, the piok of everywhere. Incubi tc.do a moot important and
If Canada does not tette first rank mach needed service in the liue of
as a dairy oouutry it will not be oxperimrnt and education. Canada
because elle le not favored by nature has au excellent agricultural preee,
moth rem•otit that for four years with all the easeutiel conditions of which lino clone, and is doing, a
the 'on:tiwesteru oenuties of Soot grasses, water, eliuiate, t1:c. gi..ud work educating its readers•
1 and hove been steadily improvingDoubbl08a there are districts fu Tile ordinary newspaper ire/4f is
.he pulley of tiv'ir aheeee under the I Canada, because of natural condi- keenly alive to its own power to
pursonel in:truction of Canadian 1 bona or circumstances, not an well reach and impress the lnasews in
cb,•eseweke, ., wuc aro introducing adapted for butter as for cheese pre. the direction of improvement. Tho
too ()mediae eysretn, The firat duction. This may be truo of some Dominion and some of the pruvin
318.,11 thio ca,!,ny Saute were ooutaut
wi' a the importation of one inotrue•
tor ; but now they are not satisfied
with loss thee two of our beet men,
whom ti ay secnrt• ha the moat prac•
tical, busutes.•blte way, by liberal
remuneration for what they find to
be exceedingly valuable service.
Ou the other hand, 1130 actual
reputatiou .abroad of Canadian butter
to day, compered with what it was
at one time, is of a lase flattering
character. Indeed, it is a queatlou
which has fallen off the most, our
export+ of boater (which wo havo
demi baa gone down '78 por neat.,)
or our reputation for making it.
So touch for the past of our dairy
industry. Whet is icy possible and
probable fatttre2 To myoatf, in
spiln of the discouraging ,aspects of
one branca of uur enq tiny, the 0011
look is hopeful.
_ i what 11 was before the trade began
In Canada's rest/areas, dcvelollett 110 assume noticeable proportions, is
and undeveloped, the field, the for. 11 netteriug coulirmation of the eon.
one the limitary, the rhino, 1110au 1011181004 wbioh naturally follow from
fa0tnrce and commerce, ell occupy a study of the above figures, At ono
no mean pluco. It is, however, et, time Canadian cheese was exported
depreciation of the 011180 00x01100.:31 nutl.er an Amorlcau brand, to give
to say 11,81, both iu rto)tt,,l rosr,lta it a bettor hold upe1 tbo English
cl iu I
i.:otni0etht first market; to day It is 11 ba feared
328003'd staotls big13o8t i
iu rnpnrtano,. that 813010wd Atneneaue Icuow .too
Ontario, boiug more of a whoat-
growlug country, loot had lees of the
advantage of baviug made butter.
making in same degree a specialty,
but it is not to be doubted that in
every ono of its nob eoantloe excel.
lent butter has been made, though
tons of it leave boeu sl;uiletl by bad
mixing and store paeh'h..g, As for
oar glorious \Yestum heritage—the
Our exports ora nu illustration wonthat Amerieen cheese will sell pralrua—there nutty be shine parte
tube fact. In 1887 our ta] riculttlrtt! bettor in Ln landif put tepee the of it lacking the abundance of »arra
exports amounted to moors tll'en half I11arltet 118 Oath' iau. Tho repnta• water eeeeutial to the production of
of the tatal exports. The fe
d„
,,,) tion of Oaeadew cheese is now the finest butter, but they are pro.
whicb, by elites of experts, i, sec 800313,1 le none, end 1133 81180054 of bably only a small proportion of the
and 131 importauco is tett of the the Dominion in cheese preduo1iou whole, and where there is water
has already awakened considerable
forest, and the exports of the latter
worn loss tbau bale thus of ah„ enquiry rte al our methods %nee.
field In round million. ,,t• dollars,
ouroompetita:ri. Both in Danmark,
our tots,' export,,, in 1887, woo, a� the pr04011 bu ter c,nntry, par ex
oalleueo, eu.l in Iion:end, the premier
country for milk production and
dairy omens, I Saw iudicationa of a
dispoei,i nl ti 4tudy the reasons of
Cenada'e Bue0e8$. Iucid)u+ally I
follow, :
'rite held 041,000,000
The forest 20,00',000
I'isherios 7,000,000
Mines 4,000,000
Manofaoturaa 300,000
Furs 2.000,000
Miscellaneous 1,000,000
$78,000,000
Total
In tele alas"llientton i here made
a departure front (haat of in t td,,
and navigation 116108. In the'll d,l'
(agriculture) I have inututted 'mi.
turtle and their product s,' t'xc'p:
'furs,' which I have olasa[iol eeper
ately.
These figures, striking a4 tboy
are, do not fully express the relative
importance of agriculture. Among
the considerations which empuaeize
that expression are Ole followiu3:—
1. The forest products exported are
more nearly in a raw state. like
deals, planes, etc„ and do but repro.
sent the employmcut afforded ilea
field products do, the latter iuclud
lI g 80011 products a4 Cattle, %mob,
butter, grain, eta 2. Forest pro
dude belong only to the now phase
of the country, and must cabs with
its devolopement, while the li„td i8
the present backbone and tho future
promise el the country ; and our
bigbeet prosperity in the film e will
be contingent upot.its beat au l con
111111004 expansion and lmproveln'et,
which both aro possible.
Now, an analysis of the export,
of our mutt impurtaut and vain dile
agricultural et-sett:oes will show there
is taus special branch of the iuduetry
which avertops the other branches,
even as agriculture itself eta ods
lumber than our other rexourcos
First—'i.'ue country is remarkably
well adapted for dairying. The sue•
eeS4 of the (Meese intlnatry is abuud
ant pr10t of adeptatiou for the pro
1(113 11) of intik, and of out., at Iciest,
of the milk products. Our failure
iu butter exportation is not 11e080-
sarlly proof that the country Is not
'We exported in 1887, iu round mil I adapted for butter produeuon The
Hone of dollars : j quality of butter which wo export is
Cheese and butter S 8,000,000 email in proportion to what we coll.
8umeat home. The Canadian people
Barley are light consumers of cheese, bot
heavy consumers of butter. Our
butter consumption ls, to a very cob
aiderable extent, of au exacting char-
acter, and it absorbs a larger pre
portion, if not noarly all, of the very
beat portion of our whole make.
Local prices for the best of our
butter are usually sufficiently higu
to force the exporter to handle
quantities of cheaper and inferior
butter. One Gutter -maker within a
mile of my writing has sold no butter
for years at leas Mau 20 cents por
pound. He always has 'his price,'
and a few years ago his price was
25 cents per pound. This butter
Mee usually been sold directly to
some of the many consumers always
on the lookout for good butter at
any reasonable price. Doubtleei
not a eiogle tub of it ever found i14
way into the exports, for the rename
that it was always spoken fur, auto
nsuttlly et figures which forbid its
export. The person referred to has
just tient cue tub to a Moutreal
family, whose head writes that it is
"very fine butter." One tub has
gone to Megaton, Out.; ono goes to
Ottawa, and the Instance is spoken
for by a Montreal retailer. `!'here
is nothing exceptional rn thus 1n•
stance, it ip merely illustrative of a
condition of things- which bear
upon the quoetiou of the grade of
our whole butter p.roduotiou.
Again, .the, faulty ..0ouditiou of
butter 03 a foreign market is not
always a proof that the butter was
devoid of quality when firet made.
It may not havo been packed to pro-
vide for the trying conditions of its
subsequent handling. It may have people ehould set themselves at once
boon unfairly tested in its traaspurta• and heartily to Oho task, What has
tion or by speculative "holding." been dope already in this 001.100c -
tion will show that the temper of
the people is for Improvement and
progress, but not enough has been
does and not enough attempted. I
do not claim that the task is a light
ono; 1 claim, only, that the genius
of the people is equal to the need, if
10 :rill assort itself here as it has
clone elsewhere. ' What action must
needs bo taken, it is not within the
eoopa of tho present writing to dis-
01158.
Tho agencies whleh aro already
working for iiupr0vemen1 of dairy-
ing in Canada are, 03611317, tho fol.
lowing :—
The Weeeern
—Tho'Vostern and Eastern Dairy. 1
)11011'8 aa80eiatiot18 of Ontario, and
the Dairymen's assoeiatiou of Quo•
boo, live been more than all else in -
horned cattle 6,000,000
8,000,000
Wheat 4,000,000
Peas 2,000,000
Flour 2,000,000
Horses 2,000,000
Eggs (noarly) 0,000,000
Sundries 10,000,000
Total 041,000,000
The dairy exports hero stand
highest of all. Indeed, they ex-
ceeded our combined exports of
sheep, fruit, bacon, hay, oats, hides,
potatoes and wool They were
nearly 20 per cent. of all the agri-
cultural exports, and over 10 per
cent. uf our total exports.
These facts indicate, so far as
exports have any moaning, that the
dairy is a factor iu our industrial
economy which is seoond to no other.
It is Huth & 1130000 111 a 8008e 1101
indicated by figure%, for milk pro.
duction rather, then being unduly
exhaustive to the soil, is favorable
to a system of cultivation which will
help to renew the fertility of sail al
ready impovoriehed by grain eve's.
ping. It le the Canadian experience
that the intelligent production of
milk and the skilful manufacture of
its products brings prosperity to the
agriculturalist.
The manifest advantages of dairy
lig and the large place i1 has in our
industrial economy bespeak a eon.
dition of things favorable to the
future prosperity and progress of
tbo country.
Unhappily, a further analysis of
our dairy exports will greatly modify I
any self congratulations. 'While in
a general splendid expansion and
rapid growth of our exports, our
dairy products, as a whole, have kept
pane with the most important of our
other exports, one of these dairy
products has been steadily falling
behind in a most marked degree.
1.12he years 1872 to 1887, which in.
creased our total exports from 01 to
78 millions of dollars, or 22 per Dent.,
increased our cheese and bettor ex•
porta front $5,500,000 to $8,000,-
000, or 4:8 per cont.; while our but-
ter exports, 105000d of showing their
sharp of increase, havo actually
fallen off from three taud a half mIl-
Itone to ono million dollars; or no
loss time 78 per cent. 11, of course,
follows that the exports of cheese
must have had an almost phe11omou•
al expansion in order to have. given
the combined exports so good a
showing as they have made. • And
the actual inCl'oaeo of our cheese es-
ports have, indeed, boon 'something
striking. Prom less than two mil-
lion dollars in 1872, they have grown
to over 880032 million dollars 111 1887,
an expansion of about 280 per cent,.'
of our whoat•grawiug, water•ecaut
0utario counties, or some of our
rich low clay lauds of our Quebec
parishes ; but these districts will
confine themselves more closely to
cheese production, as a profitable
specialty, making butter only in a
supplementary way, and mainly for
consumption more or less local.
Second.—The genius of the
people of Canada is equal to the
special needs of successful dairying.
Hero I have tonoued upon an ire•'
portant factor of succeee. Natural
adventagoe, though necessary to
complelest success, are almoe1 lees
than half the battle. We are com-
ing More and mere into days of
still competition, in which intelli-
gouce, enterprise and skill wit, play
the lullest part. Scientific iuves
tigatiou, to discover 01ature'8 secrets;
experimental wont, leading to per-
fection of method; wee/M004 111.
voutioua, to perfeot necessary ap-
pliances ; originality and push in
enterprise—all aro necessary to sole
Coes in the strong competition al
ready upon ue. In pushing to the
front in cheese making, Caua(a has
shown herself peopled with a race
pcoseesed of the ueeees,ory qualfflee-
lious for eucceea. '211e growth of
rue cheese industry, if carefully
studied, will be eaten to bo not au
accident nor a spurt, but a real
growth, due to the intelligent enter-
prise of the people most Intimately
connected with that growth. It is
the nulled action of the pionoete of
the industry iu Ontario, iu aseocia•
tion, assisted, in a moderate degree
only, by Government, winch gave
the first impetus to what is now our
great laeto0y system or cheese -malt -
lug. Quebec followed closely upon
Ontario, taud now other provtuces
are on the move. The cheese iu•
thistly 1e now 8o well in hand that
there aan be little doubt of such
steady progress that the Domiuiou
will lead all competitors in the race.
The good judgment of the Cana•
eiiau epees° makers ie well indicat-
ed by their temper on the questitm
of the adulteration of cheese. All
the plauoiblo arguments to 'greedily
resort to the tempting profits of
robbing the milk of ice cream, auto
substituting something cheaper, are
always met by a unanimous, oven
impatient opposition by our 11500
Mated cheesemakers, The wisdom
of thio disposition b000mes more and
mare apparent h the ever improv
Ing reputation of our cheese In Groat
Britain, In a recent official exami•
nation of,•l think, nearly 800 eam-
plea of Canadian oboes in England,
not one was found to be adulterat•
ed. •
In butter production, while there
aro no ovidonees of marked 81100880,
while there are rather (wideness of
failure, the genius of our people
must be equal to the' pearls of the
situation, even rte it Wei in the ease
of cheese production. Taut the
As a matter of fact, in every pro•
vines of the Dominion, and very
likely in every country, more or loss
butter 1108 been and is boiug ,Wade
which would be considered fine 1n
buy market. It is unlikely that in
Ireland itself hotter butter can bo
made than in our own Prince Edward
Istaud—equally green and boauti•
ful. "Gilt-edged" butter, may be
made almost anywhere is Maritime
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
with their rich marshes and grassy
slopes, kissed by Atlautio seabreezes.
Quebec has its Eastern Townships,
the very name of which is synony.
moue with the best butter of the
country. It has, too, its l(atncur•
aslta district, which, though it has
shipped enough bad butter to apoit
the best reputation, 11ic1 it in spite sirumen1al iu building up our great
of cattle, grasses and atulospllare eltoase industry, and malting it what
which have ;reduced aotne, and it is. The Ontario 000atut0r105 as•
tial go%erntneuts hove made a be-
giriniug by circulating dairy litora•
tore specially prepared. As the
writer of some of the pamphlets
issued, I am glad to have %Metau-
tial evidence (bat it luau dobe good
work.
In view of our natural advantages,
the gamut of our people, what hoe
already been attained, and au t1wale•
cued disposition throughout the
country to make greater progress,
there is surely reason to hope for
the dairy industry io Canada a
grand future. W. H. Lynn,
Danville, P.Q. Nov. 24, '88.
THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND
TAILOR SHOP
eetewestertoweeeteseseesose-
first-Class Suits, either Bound
or Unbound, made tor
$4.00.
>Irl Pit Guaranteed.
Produce taken in exchange for
Work.
M. G. IRICHARDSON,
8-4 Merchant Tailor.
PLOWS AGAIN
"Well l neighbor, whore did you gat that
ane working two furrow Gong )'low 1" Well
air,I got it from Wer. bt,tRTI'S, Drulycl.,
you know he keeps the largest !took o1
BLOWS worth the moneyin the trade,
Aro you in need of n general purpose
plow eel] and sect
TIOS. IIENDSi,"S, of Seaforth ;
TOLTON'S, of Guelph, No. 7 Plow ;
PATTERSON'S, of Woodstock.
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Straw Cutters, Grain Crushers and
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YJ
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This Company is Loaning Money
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Rates of Interest.
MORTGAGES PURCHASED.
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allowed our Deposits, according to
amount and time let.
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Aida'
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HE undersigned is prepared to buy any quantity of
the old
Egg nlponiuul1 :�rl o, "T� E
Eggs at
y
Brussels Pest Office,
Farmers and others can depend upon getting frorn
ors the very llighest Market Price 1N CAs11
this season as we 1000 going to ship extensively and require largo
quantities.
Don't forget the old stand next door to the lost Witte, Brussels.
a� rsd v o ,' y.e & Baas
Noticehave much pleasure lu informing all my
.
`old friends that my daughter and grandson
will continuo the egg business at the old stand carried on by n1
last year and I hope they will recieve liberal patronage.
Js'v o ODDICR:
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Suits Cot Up in Latest styles
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Arrah Pat phawt is that yon see walkin down sthrato
Sure its Mike with a now suit from head to the fate ;
And where did tlla spalpoen get fitted so nate '?
Why up at Broadway --at 88.
Tina Ross by's get us such zlligant Tweeds,
And -everything else that a gintlenlan 118011E
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And bogor they'll not elide you tor novor a tint. •
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l""hail gloves. and their stockings sure niver will wear
And their tweeds are warranted never to tear.
If you want bat or cap, or ev011 n ecllar,
.Tisa call on the boys 11 will save you. a dollar t
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