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have now been brought to a high degree of 

 perfection, and which has received an impetus by 

 the high prices of butter, is likely to affect the 

 price of farm-house butter coming irregularly to 

 the market. 



The particulars given on the opposite page 

 showing the large extent to which the movement 

 for creameries, often worked on co-operative 

 lines, has developed in the principal countries 

 exporting butter, will, it is hoped, not be lost on 

 home producers. 



So far an all important matter to the producer 

 of dairy produce and meat, and indirectly to 

 the wheat-consuming countries, has not been 

 treated in an adequate manner. In the review of 

 American agriculture, mention has been made 

 of the exports of feeding-stuffs which it was com- 

 plained, enabled the Dutch and Danish producers 

 of butter, cheese, and bacon, to compete with the 

 American grower of the same foodstuffs. In a 

 brief notice of the dairy exports from Denmark 

 and Holland mention has been made of the large 

 quantities of feeding-stuffs which provide these 

 industries with raw material for their finished 

 products. Perhaps one of the most remarkable 

 novelties of the world's agricultural exports of 

 recent years has been the shipment of Soya beans 

 from Manchuria and the large increase of grain 

 exports from India. The sunflower-seed cake 



