done is but an indication of what may still be accomplished. 

 Western Canada's most pressing need is more farm- 

 ers and more stock. To these she offers a great op- 

 portunity. For the dairyman she has cheap land, grow- 

 ing heavy crops of grasses and fodders, a suitable climate 

 and excellent marketing facilities, ensuring cheap pro- 

 duction and a good price for the finished produce. With 

 these assets and a more closely settled population there 

 is no reason why Western Canada should not take her 

 place among the dairy countries of the world. 



Canadian Cheese Industry 



A news despatch from England announces 

 that at the Dairy Show held recently in Lon- 

 don, where butter and cheese makers of the 

 entire world met in competition, the first three 

 places in the cheddar cheese class went to 

 Canada, the first to the Mountain View cheese 

 factory, Ontario, the second to Ayr and Com- 

 pany, Montreal, and the third to the Dominion 

 Cheese Factory, Ontario. Thus further in- 

 ternational awards for agricultural produce have 

 been won by Canada, and these honors now cover 

 a range practically as wide as the varied pro- 

 ducts of the farms of the Dominion, and form 

 the finest tribute to the status of Canadian 

 agriculture. 



Cheese making has long been a popular in- 

 dustry in Canada, more especially in the East- 

 ern Provinces where it was early established 

 with the first settlements, and the great favor 

 this manufacture has found in the Western 

 Provinces of recent years has to a large extent 

 offset the decline exhibited in the East. The 

 expansion of the Canadian condensed milk 

 industry has been almost wholly the result of 

 the diversion of milk from the cheese factories, 

 and the increasing demands of the towns and 

 cities for milk, cream and ice cream, has 

 made greater annual inroads on the industry. 

 Cheese making is carried on only in those dis- 

 tricts where large quantities of milk are pro- 

 duced, and it is to these districts that the city 

 milk distributors turn for supplies. The con- 

 densed milk production of Canada now amounts 

 to about 110,000,000 pounds per year, worth 

 $20,000,000, the manufacturing of which is 

 largely effected at the expense of the cheese 

 industry. 



War Stimulated the Industry 



Conditions arising out of the war have, 

 however, stimulated dairy organization in Can- 

 ada, the most notable move in this direction 

 being the widespread organization among pro- 

 ducers. The activities of the National Dairy 

 Council, organized in 1918, are having a whole- 

 some influence on the dairy industry, and among 

 other benefits anticipated is a halt to the de- 

 cline^ of the cheese industry and its return to 

 the important place it occupied a few years 

 ago, a position which its wide popularity and 

 export trade amply justifies. 



In the year 1920 Canada produced 149,521,- 

 008 pounds of cheese valued at $39,087,937. 

 Ontario led in production with 92 t ,847,769 

 pounds, followed by Quebec with 52,441,504 

 pounds. In order named come Prince Edward 

 Island, 2,081,277 pounds; New Brunswick, 1,212,- 

 431 pounds; Alberta, 398,750 pounds; British 

 Columbia, 342,053 pounds; Manitoba, 116,229 

 pounds; Nova Scotia, 52,638 pounds; and Sask- 

 atchewan, 28,367 pounds. 



In the year 1920 there were operating in 

 Canada 1,674 factories in which cheese solely 

 was made, and 410 combined butter and cheese 

 factories, making a total of 2,084 establishments 

 manufacturing cheese. The average price ob- 

 tainable for the product during the year was 

 26 cents as compared with an average of 26J 

 cents maintained throughout 1919. 



A Popular Tribute 



The greatest tribute paid to Canadian cheese 

 is to be found in its widespread popularity and 

 the foreign export market it has developed for 

 itself, its many outlets including the outstanding 

 dairy-producing countries of the European 

 continent. Total cheese exports in the fiscal 

 year of 1921 amounted to 133,620,340 pounds, 

 valued at $37,146,732, or practically the entire 

 Dominion production for that year. In 1920 

 the figures were 126,395,777 pounds and $36,- 

 336,863, and in the previous year, 1919, 152,- 

 207,037 pounds and $35,223,983. Cheese is 

 exported from Canada to the United Kingdom, 

 United States, Belgium, Bermuda, British 

 Guiana, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Denmark, 

 France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Newfoundland and 

 other countries. 



During the time that, largely sacrificed to 

 the condensed milk industry, the cheese making 

 industry in the Eastern Provinces has recorded 

 a decline, a remarkable development has been 

 in progress in the newer West where the dairy 

 industry has made such rapid strides and so 

 firmly established itself in the agricultural 

 life of that vast territory. Whereas in 1915 the 

 production of cheese in the four Western Pro- 

 vinces was 1,118,357 pounds, in 1916 it was 

 1,643,850, and by 1917 had risen to 2,359,645. 

 Due to a somewhat similar diversion of the 

 milk, a decline is indicated in the records of the 

 past two years, but this is regarded as purely 

 temporary, and a return to the old footing of 

 the industry expected. 



London Award a Great Stimulus 



Whilst Canada is materially no loser in the 

 taking away from one industry to build up 

 ano thermit would be regretful if the cheese in- 

 dustry, in which the Dominion has achieved 

 such renown and created such a universal de- 

 mand for her product, should be permitted to 

 decline, and it is gratifying to witness indi- 

 cations of a return to pristine importance be- 



