Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — DAIRY AND CREAMERY [ARTICLE]

DAIRY AND CREAMERY

CANADA’S BUTTER PRODUCTION. iiw ’ t- rVast Sains Realised Annually From ' j This Source. Commercial Agent Fleming re'SXX gIgrSBES year turned out ifit, the market 92&.000 pounds of butter, which averaged 21.36 cents. The product was sold in British Columbia, Yukon, China and Japan. The Government operates and turns over the entire net profit of these creameries to the 1,200 fanners supplying the milk. Fifteen private creameries have also been established in Alberta, and these exported in 1905 650,000 pounds of butter. Thus the farmers of the Province received one-third of a million dollars last year from this one source. During the past year Canada exported 34,520,705 pounds of butter, valued at $7,010,799; cheese, 215,379,587 pounds, valued at $22,487,540. The total valuation of the cheese, butter, bacon and hams exported from the Dominion in 1905, including October, amounted to $42,i07,338, against $38,457,432 for the year 1904. These exports alone amounted to $9,000,000 more than all the products of the forest (rough' and manufactured), and $15,000,000 more than all the grain and grain products exported from this country during that period. The exports of butter from the . United States during 1905 were valued at $2,876,628, while the value of the cheese exported was only $935,934.