year 1907 the Board of Agriculture figures quote British Cheddar 

 as reaching a price of 76 s. per cwt, but Canadian cheese prices 

 remain as before, although for these the trade circulars of one of 

 the firms engaged in the import trade, the figures for the year ended 

 3oth June, 1907, run higher than this, or an average of 64 s. i d. for 

 Canadian Cheddar compared with only 54 s. per cwt., in the simi- 

 larly collected prices for the whole ten years 1898-1907. The more 

 general average values to be obtained from the Customs records of 

 all grades of imported cheese over the two years 1906-7 stand at 

 58 s. per cwt., while a price of less than 50 s. per cwt. was ruling 

 in the first five years of the century, and 45 s. 8 d. only in 1896-1900. 

 To find an average of imported cheese values above 60 s. a cwt. it 

 would be needful to go back to 1866-70. " 



WILLIAM E. BEAR. Imports of Butter into Great Britain. 



Jour, of the R. Agr. Soc. of England, Vol. 70, p. 168. London, 

 1909. 



" Our imports of butter, which nearly doubled between 1894 

 and 1906, when they reached the maximum, have declined slightly, 

 chiefly on account of decreases in shipments from Canada, Australia 

 and the United States. From the country last named they were 

 never very large, and now they have fallen to an insignificant quan- 

 tity. Denmark is much the most extensive contributor, followed 

 by Russia, France, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. Russia 

 (Finland) has made the greatest headway in recent years, while 

 Denmark, with some fluctuations, has greatly increased her consign- 

 ments in a series of years, those of 1908 representing the ma- 

 ximum. 



Margarine which competes with our butter, comes chiefly from 

 the Netherlands. 



The quantity under its proper name has decreased greatly 

 since 1892; but whether the quantity of adulterated butter, which 

 should be styled margarine, has fallen off or not it is impossible 

 to say. 



Unfortunately, our latest Act relating to the sale of butter allows 

 adulterated stuff to be sold under other names than that of mar- 

 garine. " 



