ONTA1 

 /;.r/vr/. The total < -iair\ produce f,.r u month- 



ending Marvi 912 and , Were as f ollowfl 



ie and \.i\ ig.ition. imrevised) : 



: <i .- 



HH...I63.4&0.684, $90.888.818; 

 14.409 



>,:<:; 

 H! Cr.ra (comlm-il) 



Kl*.. : 



ISMlMM.*0,6t7.t44 



lMM. 



{-.::.:. 



349.MS. 15,848 



;.:. i.n-i 



Cn*m (frwh ) 8W.366. 7M.687 ; HM.860. 75UM 



**4,104,S78 m.Tl4.1o.t 



The export of butter from Canada for tlic \ear endr 

 3ist. HH3. was much less than the imi>ort, tlic latter being ; 

 |K>iimls ( valued at $2,081,989. Canada must. tlu-rcP-rr. be regarded 

 as among the butter importing cnuntrie> of the world. < )n the 

 other hand, the import of cheese irrto Great Britain re])iesi nted 

 Canada as hc-ing 89,550,83^' pounds a!x)ve New Zealand, its Closest 

 competitor. (See Statement of Trade and Gmimeivi 



Production. .\<.\\ when it is observed that considerably 

 half the cheese manufactured in the Dominion is the produ 



nio, it is ol)\ioii> that the Province hold-, a large place in the 

 general dairying industry of Canada. In HJI i there wi-re 1,077 

 cheese factories, which used 1 .3<V),S5<V>*< > pound- of milk in the pro- 

 duction of 1-7.1-^.016 pound- of cheese, \ahu-d at $i54<ji,4o6; 

 utter plants at cheese factories, which made [,963,768 pounds 

 of butter, valued at $491448; and I2O creameries which made 

 v^.-^M IKHinds of buiter, valued at $.v The esiiniatc-d 



\alue of butter made in farm dairies, and of milk consumed on the 

 farm. <ent to condensed milk factories and supplied to town- and 

 about $15,000,000. Thus a conservative estimate of the 

 total value of dairy products of Ontario for the year KJI i would 

 be $34.000,000, and for 1912 easily $2,000,000 more. 



Cheese Factories and Ov./wrnV.v. Cheese and. to a nil. 



butter are manufactured under the co-operative or factory <\>trm. 

 The far re for the mo-i part managed by men trained in 



dairy schools, and all are directed by government in-tru They 



are established nearly everywhere in the Province. Material im- 

 provement has been made in recent years in their appliances and 

 conditions. Recent legislation requiring registration of 

 cheese factories and the taking out of certificate- by maker- ha 

 to greater care in the factory and higher efficiency in the work. 



