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considerably extending. Cauliflowers, broccoli, artichokes^ 

 tomatoes, and other fresh vegetables form an important 

 article of export in the winter ; the quantity sent abroad in 

 1895 was 315,000 cwts., and in 1896 380,000 cwts. Only 

 3,952 cwts. are stated to have been exported to Great Britain 

 direct in the latter year. The exports of preserved fruit 

 and vegetables have steadily increased during recent 

 years; in 1893 they amounted to 21,751 cwts., and in 1896 

 to 64,112 cwts., of the latter quantity 44,556 cwts. were 

 shipped to Great Britain. The production of potatoes is- 

 practically stationary. In 1870-74 the average yield was 

 14,121,000 cwts., it fell in 1883 to 11,196,000 cwts., but in 

 the three years 1892-94 it amounted to an average of 

 14,411,000 cwts. The export in 1896, chiefly to Austria^, 

 Malta, and Germany, was 484,000 cwts. 



There are three laws in force in the Dominion of Canada. 



for the prevention of adulteration and 



Canadian fraud in the sale of Dairy Products. An. 

 Leg'islation for 



Dairy Products. passed m 1886 provides that oleo- 



margarine, butterine, or other substitute 

 for butter, manufactured from animal substances other than, 

 milk, may be manufactured or sold in the Dominion. In^ 

 1889 a further measure was passed, which made it an offence 

 to supply adulterated, skimmed, sour or tainted milk to any 

 cheese, butter, or condensed milk factory, or to any maker 

 of cheese, butter, or condensed milk, or to supply milk, 

 known to be taken from a diseased cow. Four years later, 

 in 1893, the Dairy Products Act came into force. This Act 

 forbids the manufacture or sale of filled or imitation cheese, 

 i.e.^ cheese made from skimmed milk to w^hich has beeni 

 added any fat which is foreign to such milk. Cheese made 

 from skimmed milk is to be legibly marked and branded 

 to that effect ; and no cheese or butter is to be marked or 

 branded as Canadian unless such cheese or butter has been, 

 produced in Canada ; whilst foreign cheese and butter is to. 

 be branded with the name of the country of origin. 



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