98 CREAMERIES IN NOVA SCOTIA. 

The number of c eameries and cheese factories in Nova 
Scotia in 1899 was 21, and the production 
stale tang of cheese amounted to 287,998 lbs., and of 
butter to 298,519 Ibs. The (greater 
portion of the produce is consumed locally, but a few of the 
creameries do an export trade. The average quantity of 
milk required to make a pound of cheese is 9°84 lbs., ora little 
less than one gallon, whilst the milk used for a pound of 
butter is about 21 gallons. ‘The price fetched by the cheese 
was, on the average, 43d. per lb., whilst the butter sold for 
g?d. a pound. 
According to a statement made by Professor Liljhagen at 
a meeting of the Swedish Agricultural 
sane Academy, there are now 1,550 dairies 
established by co-operative associations 
and joint stock companies in Sweden. The number of- 
co-operative dairies is 450, of which 300 manufacture butter 
only, 100 manufacture cheese oniy, and the remaining 50 
produce both butter and cheese. Of the 1,100 dairies run by 
joint stock companies, 800 are engaged solely in the pro- 
duction of butter. In addition to the foregoing establish- 
ments there are about 200 estate dairies and a large number 
of smaller private dairies.—Ugeskrift for Landmend. 

The total export of live stock from the Argentine Republic 
during the year 1899 comprised 108,000 
peters cactls and 521,000 sheep, as PEERS 
and Sheep. with 140,000 cattle and 562,000 sheep ex- 
ported in the preceding year. Of the 
cattle, 89,000 were sent to Great Britain, whilst 14,000 went to 
Brazil and 3,000 tothe Cape. Of the sheep about 407,000 
were sent to this country, 96,000 to the Continent of Europe 
over 7,000 to the Cape, and 4,000 to Brazil. In addition, 
frozen carcases of sheep to the number of 1,960,000 were 
exported almost exclusively to the United Kingdom. 
