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Tous les autres exemplaires origiriaux sont filmds an commen^ant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la derniire page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la derniire image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbole — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE" le symbols V signifie "F«N". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmto d des taux da rMuction diffirents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est film* d partir de I'angie sup*rieur gauche, da gauche * drolte. et de haut en bas. en prenant le nombre d'images n*cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ±§/C^)^^'e^ "'^^ / ON BUTTER Consumption of imported Butter In Great Britain. CANADA'S SHARE IN THE SUPPLY NEEDED. RESOLUTION OF COMMONS COMMITTEE. ACTION TAKEN BY THE DOMINION MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE. LETTER OF HON. MR. ANGERS, Mmiiter qf Agriculture, 3. ^0 a gty fe\)©^ o-A.asr-A.iDA., \ BUTTER PRODUCTION AND EXPORT. During the years 1885-93 the United Kingdom, accord- ing to the British returns, imported from Canada 33,214,272 pounds of butter; according to the Canadian returns Canada in the same period (9 years) exported to the bu7teI^ "^ 32,398,645 pounds of Canadian-made During 1885-93 United States' butter took the St. Law- 7^^LT^" *' '^' ^""'"'^ ^"^^^^"^ '^ t^>« extent of 4,214,bo0 pounds and Canadian butter was shipped from .^llnt'"'^ P""'^' ^'' *^' ^'°^*'^ ^^°g^«°^ *« the amount ot 8,323,507 pounds. Some of the Canadian butter shipped through the United btateshas doubtless been credited in the British returns to the United States, and some of the United States' butter shipped ihrough Canada has been credited in the British returns to Canada. Substantially, however, the British returns may be taken as correct. We have, therefore, during nine years rroAV. '"^'^'*' '^*^' ^""'^ ^^^^^"^ «» ^^e4e of o'T.n^tr''^'^' ^ ^'^' *° '"PP^y ^^ ^"^"^1 demand of 220 65 ,400 pounds. That is, in every 100 pounds the United Kingdom has imported, Canada's share has been 1 poi?nd 2 ounces. During the nine years the United Kingdom has imported from all countries 1,986 million pounds of butter, and Canada has accepted as her share in that trade 33,214 000 pounds. ' ' Taking by three-year periods we have supplied If pounds in every 100 pounds imported by the United King- dom in 1885-66-87 ; i'^ of a pound in every 100 pounds in 1888-89-90, and 2^ pounds in every 100 wanted in 1891- 92-93. In 1894 the United Kingdom imported 288,519,056 pounds and Canada's share was 2,339,344 pounds, or f of a pound in every 100 pounds wanted. The United Kingdon has increased its demands upon the butter-exporting countries, while Canada has sent in 1894 less than the proportion for any of the three-year periods. But this is not all. The Danish butter is entered in the British returns as worth 24^V cents per pound, while the Canadian is entered at a value of 19 j<^^. Jf the Canadian butter sent over in 1893 had had the value of Danish butter the sum of |236,000 would have been added to the total. That is, it would have been worth just about 25 per cent more than its actual value as adjusted in the British returns. Applying this percentage to the total export of butter from Canada during the past nine years, it appears that the farmers and traders of Canada havo .ost over $1,500,000 because the butter shipped has not been equal to the aver- age Danish standard. We have not only supplied an infinit<^;imal proportion of the British demand, but we have supplied an inferior article. The questions which are here expressed statistically oc- cupied the attention of the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization during the last session of the House. It was moved in the Select Committee on Agriculture and Col- onization by Mr. R. R. McLennan, M.P. for Glengary, " That this Committee are of opinion from evidence placed before them, that the Creamery butter manufactured in Canada and sent to the English markets, suffers from an unfounded prejudice which has hitherto affected, mate- rially, the prices obtained, and consequently the increase that this country should be making from year to year, in this important article of our dairy product, and therefore recommend that the Gorernment take such steps as will place our butter on the markets, in fair competition with all other butter imported into that country."— Carried. GEORGE JOHNSON, Statitiieian. Drpt. of AaRiouLTDBB, Ottawa, Statistical Ditision, March 8th, 1895. The Minister of Agriculture has aimed at meeting the wishes of the Committee, and has adopted a plan for that purpose. The following letter explains the plan he has prepared. Ottawa, February 26th, 1895. Sir, — I have to acknowledge your letter of the 18th inst., in which you intimate to me, by instruction of the Butter and Cheese Association of the Montreal Board of Trade, that the Board in Montreal "views with alarm the proposed " offer of the Government to pay advances at the rate of " 20 cents per pound on creamery butter of the finest " quality made between the 1st day of January, 1895, and " the 30th day of March, 1895, when for shipment to the '' British market." 6 in yourilL'rM°ar> '" "''^ *? """" '='■ »' """'""'"J Great Br.ta.n, under date of the 9th inst., the finest Austrahan butter i, quoted at from 90 to 100 shilling, per hundredweight, and that there is an improved trTde in weight. These latter prices I take to be equivalent tn . range rom 21J to 23J cents per pound in England at the current rate of exchange. I am informed that the actual and necessary business expenses for shipment of butter to GreatBritainfinclX reasonable charges for commission) need not exceed f cents per pound from the Creameries in Canada. Competent judges in Canada, among them the lar<rc.t exporters of butter in Montreal, have ex^-ressed h p ntn hat Canadian creamery butter, when fresh made is eoTa^ m quality to Australian or Danish. This opinton hL been trnC ma^ °™"^' '"^ -"--<• '^"^^^ •>•>"« If the statement in your letter be correct, that fresh made creamery butter shipped from Canada is not like/ to m Totl " 'VT "" P°""^ '" ^"«"""^' i' appears I ""^^ ^»»\ ""Po'tant and desirable that some action should be taken to obtain for it a recognition of qua! itv »nH price from which it is now excluded ' ^ *'"' The advance of twenty cents per pound cannot be said to have injured the interests of butter merchants who have any stock of butter to dispose of; ou the contrar/it hi made a better condition of market for them. I cannot see any reason for the alarm expressed in your letter, as the action of the Government, at most could only affect the prospective trade of a few members of yot I I creamery butter. . winter-made ment m th.s matter is heartily commended by representlti™ c eamery men and farmers in the Dominion, and yoTwi, permit me to state that, while I regard the action of Thi chants who ezport butter, it will be found especiallT ad vantageous to the dairy farmers of Canada, whose S,t^ The second reason which is unred in vnnr in+*« the action of the Go.ern.entTtLt .Tte ^aL^^^^^^^^^ dian butter would come into comDetition '' JiT made butter from other cou^Terwhicr t^^^ market is receiving." ' *^^ English I fear that in making this remark on behalf of vonr a« sociation you have not hor^n «r^n • <• •^^'^^ ^^" whence the Engl' h Irlet T. ^^'T'" *' '' *^^ «^"^««« of ♦!,• ^"gi'sn maiket received its suopliea of hnff^n at th,s season of the year, or it would donbtCs ha.e oC 8 enrred to you that Danish butter, which has won a good reputation, and commands, probablj, the highest prices of any importpd butters in the English markets with the ex- ception of a small quantity of mild-flavoured and nearly saltless butter from France, io fodder-made butter from cows which are fed in stables ; and I may further point out to you that the conditions for the making of fine butter at this season of the year are quite as favourable in Canada as in Denmark. I am pleased to notice that your Association is not op- posed to the plan which is under consideration for provid- ing cold storage service and accommodation to permit summer-made Canadian creamery butter to be put on the British markets without deterioration in quality. I have given careful condderation to the statements in your letter which say that "eflforts should be made to "induce butter-makers to sell their product when fresh,'^ and also that ^' The makers should be clearly and em- " phatically told that, unless they are prepared to compete > " in the English market with other butter-exporting " countries, in price as well as in quality, Canadian butter " as an exportable article must cease to be, no matter " what Government efforts are made to help it." I have to inform you in reply, I am of opinion that when finest Canadian creamery butter is put on the British market in as j^'ood a condition as when it leaves the hands of the makers, it will readily command such prices as will leare a good margin of profit to the producers and the merchants. It appears to me urgent that the attention of the trade and also that of the consuming public of Great Britain should be called to the excellent quality of Canadian creamery butter, through channels similar to those which hare been used so successfully in attracting attention to the superiority of Canadian cheese ; and I am desirous of seeing that such bo done. In conclusion let me say that the action of the Govern- ment is taken in the interests of the dairy farmers of Canada; but I am at the same time hopeful that the members of the Butter and Cheese Association of the Mon- treal J3oard of Trade will reap advantages from it. T have the honour to be, 8ir, Your obedient servant, A. R. ANCi-RS. O. A. Irv/in, Esq., Secretary Butter and Cheese Assn. of the Montreal Board of Trade. 10 St. John Street, . Montreal, Que. The following extracts are from a letter received by the Dairy Commissioner from a firm in Manchester, England, to whom fresh-made Canadian creamery butter was seat for sale : — " The high colour o*f Australian is against even the best "qualities. The paler the colour, the better the demand " on this market." "We are much pleased with the quality of boxes marked "'ChesterviUe' and ' Lennoxville, No. 3,' Government "Dairy Stations). Those will sell in preference to Aus- 10 '♦ tralian on this market, being paler in colour and at least ^^ equal m flavour. For these we made 86 shillings to 90 sHUlings, which is more than Australian brought." a 1^^''^^ ^^^^^ customers were surprised at the quality of this parcel, as they expect Canadian to be something ^' inferior. If you can ship quality equal to ' Chesterville ' «nd ship It when fresh-made, we can handle all you " send." •' ast 90 of eg e,' ou I