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have been so frequently and graphically presented and dis¬ 
used by others at former meetings, that any attempt on 
my part to engage in the same could but be extrtmcl> ir 
s °me to yom has bee „ one replete with fluctu¬ 
ations in the market price of dairy products. Butter and 
cheese have not only been very low in our markets but 
have been unprecedently low in the European markets 
wi thout we had good reason for believing this would 
be the case in the early part of the present season, when 
we saw the great amount of poor butter and cheese in 
commission houses, m cold storage, an pi 
wharfs in the city of New York, last fall. lo clear tn 
market we expected much, yea, most, of this cheese wou 
have to be dumped into the Atlantic ocean, to feed the 
dolphin and seaserpent. But, luckily some of it was 
shipped to England, where it is said to have been used 
feed swine and where it sold for nearly or quite enough to 
pay invited your attention to the above 
for the purpose of showing in a measure the cause of the 
depression in the markets in the fore part of the present 
season. In our judgment this was largely due to our hold- 
ino- and placing too much poor cheese in the han - 
commission merchants during the warm weather of last 
yeal "'This season the dairymen have taken a different course, 
andw?have aS no n fl ooded Markets this Ml ahEough the pro 
duction of cheese has been quite equal, if not in excess 
that of last year in our country. Had our cheese of la 
. season bee/in quality such as to bear transportation to 
South America, we venture to say it could all have been 
sold at fair, remunerative prices, along as it was ready 
market. Our exportation of butter to that climate is already 
very large, why should it not be so with our cheese ■ c 
answer— Simply because we do not take care to ma e 
cheese to suit that market. If we desire to sell our dairy 
products we must cater to the wishes of the consumers, to 
a certain extent, at least. T 
The consumption of this article of food for man E 
harp-elV diminished in our own country within the last 
orThree years; and why so ? Simply because but very 
little good cheese is to be found in the market places. 
