VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 61 



" THE CHEESE INDUSTRY OF CANADA AND HOW IT 

 ATTAINED ITS PRESENT POSITION." 



H. H. Dean, B. S. A., Guelph, Canada, 

 Professor of Dairy Husbandry. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



There was a time when Canadians used to tremble every 

 time the American Eagle screamed. We do so no longer. We 

 have come to regard you as friends. I have come to pay you 

 a friendly visit, and I trust our visit and talk together to-day 

 shall be one of mutual profit. Our exports in butter are some 

 four or five millions of dollars per year, while our exports of 

 cheese run from seventeen to eighteen millions of dollars per 

 year. So you see we are very much interested in cheese mak- 

 ing, while I judge from the remarks here today your interests 

 in dairying are more along the lines of butter making. 



The cheese industry of Canada is the result of naturally 

 favorable conditions, and is a reflection of the tastes and apti- 

 tudes of the Canadian people. 



The Province of Ontario, from which I come, is surrounded 

 by the great lakes ; and we have inland rivers supplying the 

 moisture which is necessary for skillful making. The Prov- 

 ince of (Quebec and the maritime provinces too are largely 

 engaged in cheese making. 



Our people are descended from the best cheese makers of 

 the old country — Scotch, English, German, Dutch and French 

 — a great many of whom brought with them this natural taste 

 for cheese making. As a consequence, our people have de- 

 veloped cheese making to a very large extent indeed. The 

 cheese industry in Canada is of recent growth. The first 

 cheese factory in the Province of Ontario was built in 1864, 

 and the industry has spread until now it covers the whole of 

 the Dominion of Canada. 



People have an idea that Canada is a little frozen up place, 

 noted only for its cheese-makers and icicles. You will per- 

 haps be surprised when I tell you that our country is larger in 

 extent than the United States, although we have not its pop- 

 ulation. But that is growing, and the time may come when 

 we shall have as large a population as you have, and then, 

 perhaps, will come the time when private dairying will have 

 reached that point which it has reached in this state. 



