CANADIAN PROSPECTS 31 



The urgent demands for meat and dairy products 

 in Canada for home consumption must tend to 

 increase the acreage of fodder crops. To a lesser 

 degree the considerable increase in linseed acreage, 

 which has been found to be as suitable for a 

 " breaking crop " as wheat, and which can be 

 sown somewhat later, is a reminder that the 

 practice of " wheat mining " is subject to the 

 competitive influence of other crops. As a sign 

 of Canada's increasing demand for meat and dairy 

 products, the considerable diminution of cheese 1 

 exports to the United Kingdom, and the complete 

 cessation of meat and butter shipments, are 

 unmistakable. Whereas, up to 1910 we re- 

 ceived over 100,000 live cattle per annum, in 1912 

 Canadian shipments had fallen to 6,800, and a 

 like falling off would appear to have taken place 

 in the exports of hog products. Butter was 61 

 hundredweight in 1911, and but 27 hundredweight 

 last year ; since June, 1912, there have been no 

 exports of butter from Canada, and what is more 

 surprising New Zealand's supplies have been 

 requisitioned to make up a deficiency, the net 

 imports from all sources for the ten months 

 ending January 31st being valued at £268,000. 

 While the demand for beef has increased, sup- 



1 U.K. receipts of Canadian cheese for 191 1 show a 

 decline of 134,000 cwt. compared to those of 1910, and 

 likewise 1912 a decline of 121,000 cwt. compared to those 

 of 1911. 



