A GREAT CHEESE YEAR 



The cheese exports from Montreal during a period of five years, the average price 

 per box, and the approximate value were as follows: 



Quantity, Price per 



boxes box Value 



1915 1,851,731 $13.44 $24,887,264 



1914 1,482,538 11.07 18,493,179 



1913 1,571,165 10.25 16,104,441 



1912 1,723,021 10.04 17,299,130 



1911 1,810,666 9.84 17,816,953 



The production of cheese and butter has been somewhat handicapped in Holland 

 by the breaking of the North Sea waters through the dykes. Immense areas have been 

 flooded with salt waters, human lives have been lost, cattle drowned and great damage 

 done to farm homes. In some places only the church towers are to be seen above the 

 flood. It will take years to reconstruct the dykes, pump out the water and restore 

 the land to its former condition. 



Owing to German demand, Danish shippers have raised their quotations to the 

 extraordinary price of 208s. per cwt., and it is thought that this action will unfavour- 

 ably affect the future popularity of Danish butter in Great Britain. 



Commenting upon the butter situation, the London Standard states in its issue of 

 October 14: — 



"The high price of butter, created apparently through the advance of butter prices 

 at Copenhagen, where the Germans are bidding high figures to secure it for their own 

 consumption, has caused some of the best families in all parts of the United Kingdom 

 to purchase margarine rather than pay such high prices for butter. All the leading 

 wholesale merchants have been seriously pressed since the last advance in butter 

 prices for supplies of margarine, and the supply is inadequate to meet the demand. 

 The cheapest Danish butter has now an average price of Is. 9d. per pound, whereas the 

 best class of wholesome margarine can be obtained at Is. 



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