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and his friend the Irishman. In 1891 there were 945,575 dairy cows in the 
three principal Australian colonies given over to dairying; while in Canada 
there were 1,857,112. The Australian output in butter then was 23,000 tons, 
and the Canadian 51,700 tons; while as regards cheese, the Australian pro- 
duced 6,700 tons, and the Canadian 51,000 tons. Four years later the figures 
had bounded up. There were 1,100,000 cows in Australia, and 1,950,000 cows 
in Canada. Australia made 86,000 tons of butter and 11,500 tons of cheese, 
and Canada made 52,000 tons of butter and 68,000 tons of cheese. These 
colonies mean to do greater things than these, and their hopes are centred on 
the purchasing power of the United Kingdom. In 1896 that valuable asset in 
the universe imported 151,897 tons of butter valued at the handy sum of 
£15,344,000, and 112,227 tons of cheese, valued at £4,900,000, or altogether 
about 264,124 tons of dairy produce, worth £20,244,000. Of this stupendous 
sum the colonies got £4,180,000, and the foreigner sent 184,284 tons, and got 
£16,114,000 of this empire’s hard-earned money. Very good. The colonies 
are advised by Mr. Samuel Lowe (Messrs. W. Weddel and Co.) to capture this 
or the greater portion of it, at least to reverse the balance of parts. They can 
do this, he says, by improving their dairy herds—(very good, Mr. Lowe: 
that means that they must buy Ayrshires and milking Shorthorns and Jerseys) — 
adopting a system of winter feeding, and getting square with the British 
public; confining the butter and cheese manufacture entirely to the factory 
system; making a careful study of bacteriology, and adopting its latest dis- 
coveries; adopting universally the principle of pasteurisation; and, finally, 
establishing experiment stations and dairy schools all round the place. This is 
an ambitious programme. If carried out in its entirety, and all its ambitious 
aims realised, a result might be achieved not in the contract: the home pro- 
ducer might find his last state worse than the first, because the foreigner, 
whatever happens, must send his surplus produce here—he has no other market, 
and he cannot eat it all. Mr. Samuel Lowe was not reassuring to the British 
farmer, and if I were the latter, and believed Mr. Lowe, I would take guid care 
to tak’ a cheap farm.—Standard. 
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