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perience of Denmark and Holland ; in these countries butter is 
the principal industry, and such cheese as is made comes from 
milk more or less skimmed, and, in the case of Holland, for 
example, the quantity shipped to England and the prices 
obtained for such skim cheese compare most favourably with 
the Canadian exportations of whole-milk cheese. 
An important economical question arises whether it would 
be prudent to increase very largely the production of Cheddar 
cheese — the only kind made in Canada, as a rule — over what it 
is at present. That such an increase, even at the rate of ten- 
fold in a very few years, is practicable there can be no doubt. 
Thus, in the Province of Quebec alone, not a single cheese 
factory existed in the French settlements up to 1872, and now 
these same settlements produce nearly one-fourth of all the 
cheese manufactured in Canada, and there is still room for an 
increase of a hundred-fold. From the Maritime Provinces, 
where the facilities for making butter and cheese are at least 
equal to those of Quebec, hardly any cheese is exported. The 
following Table, from the Trade and Navigation Returns, 1883", 
is interesting, as it conveys a good idea of the present exporting 
capacity of the several Provinces named : — 
Total Export of Cheese and Butter from the Canadl\n Proyikces 
in 1883. 
Cheese. 
Province. 
Butter. 
Lbs. 
Value. 
Lbs. 
Value. 
12,305,07!) 
45,055,038 
15,081 
135 
12 
0,042 
it; 
270,200 
1,013,036 
418 
3 
1 
2 
123 
New Brunswick . . 
British Columbia .. 
Prince Edward Island . . 
1,537,586 
6,048,912 
477,372 
20,199 
07 
22,311 
£ 
05,455 
255,080 
18,272 
899 
6 
853 
58,041,387 
£1,290, 380 J 
8,100,447 j £341,105 
But the imports of cheese into Britain during the last few 
years do not show that increase which would seem to call for 
an increased export from Canada. Our imports of cheese from 
all sources were, in — ■ 
cwts. 
1879 1,789,168 
1880 1,773,503 
1881 1,834,480 
1882 1,692,495 
1883 1,797,080 
1884 1,926,070 
Hence, if the present tendency towards increasing the output 
of cheese in Canada continues, the surplus can only be disposed 
