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is. \\d. per Ib. on the London markets, and that 

 from this sale-price had to be deducted the cost of 

 freight from Melbourne to London plus the cost of 

 turning the raw material into a finished product. 

 Yet farmers in Australia contend that dairying pays, 

 as witnessed by the huge export trade in butter. 



In South Africa the dairy industry must still 

 grow in importance and become one of the leading 

 agricultural industries in the country. Milk and 

 its products have followed the European wherever 

 he has penetrated, and as fat and oils are a neces- 

 sary item of food for man it seems hardly possible 

 to produce too much. As long ago as 1902 the 

 United States of America to take one country as 

 an instance produced approximately 480, 000,000 Ibs. 

 of butter for that year, irrespective of the vast 

 amount of cheese and other milk products turned 

 out. The author's authority for this statement is 

 Chas. Y. Knight, of Chicago, secretary of the 

 National Dairy Union, and editor and manager 

 of the Chicago Dairy Produce, a weekly paper de- 

 voted to the interests of butter and butter-making. 

 That was as long ago as 1902 ; what must be their 

 production to-day ? Yet it is all consumed in the 

 States, and only a small export trade exists in 

 butter. Denmark, one of the leading dairy countries 

 of the world, was once on the verge of bankruptcy, 

 but the dairy industry has changed this to prosperity 

 and placed the economic development of the 



