Vermont Dairymen's Association. 37 



CHEESE VS. BUTTER MAKING. 



PROF. H. H. DljAN, GUE^IvPH, ONTARIO. 



Before I take up my topic proper, will you allow me as a 

 Canadian to say one or two things of what we are doing in Can- 

 ada? We are not so large in population as the great American 

 Republic, — we are only five and a half millions of people in Can- 

 ada, yet our dairy products last year have been estimated as being 

 worth $80,000,000, or about fifteen dollars for every man, woman 

 and child in the Dominion. We exported about $30,000,000 worth 

 made up in round numbers of $22,000,000 in cheese and $8,000,000 

 in butter. The average price per pound received for export cheese 

 has been about 10^ cents, that for butter 21 j4 cents. In spite 

 of the high tariff wall on each side of the border line, we sold 

 last year to the United States goods of all kinds to the value of 

 about $77,000,000 worth. We bought from the American Repub- 

 lic about $163,000,000 worth. We sold to the Mother Country, 

 Great Britain, about $102,000,000 worth of goods and bought 

 from her about $60,000,000 worth of her manufactures. 



The key note of the dairy business at the present time with 

 us is cooperation and economy. I was forcibly struck with that 

 fact this last summer when visiting the different dairy countries 

 of Europe as well as Great Britain and Ireland, and especially 

 Denmark. I found that cooperation and economy in that country 

 carried to a point such as is not to be found in any country under 

 the sun so far as I know. The farmers in Denmark own their 

 creameries, their collecting and exporting establishments, their 

 bacon-curing establishments, — in fact, everything, every great 

 farming industry in that country is owned and managed by the 

 farmers. Let me give you one illustration regarding the economy 

 which is practiced in their bacon-curing establishments. The 

 farmers not only fatten the pigs which they take to the establish- 

 ments, but every scrap of meat, every bone, every particle of that 

 animal is turned into something of value. It is, I believe, the 

 boast of the American bacon establishments that they make use 

 of everything in connection with the hog except the squeal. The 

 Danes are going you one better ; they are trying to enter into 

 negotiations at the present time with Scotland to import the squeal 

 for use in the bagpipes. 



