The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-28
Our Cheese Abroad.

In the columns of foreign exchange
we read American cheese at one time
threatened to overwhelm the English
producer, but these fears have now had
some abatement. 1t seems that the
best qualities of American cheese meet
with sufficient demand in the United
States and that only the lower qualities
are exported. Thus the English pro-
dueers have great incentive to raise
the character Of their cheese above the
American standard. At the present
time the price for American cheese in
London is seventy shillings hundred
weight, and this is the price current in
New York. We presume that this po-
sition is abnormal, otherwise it is not
clear who pays for the freight across the
Atlantic. New York exports of cheese
have certainly fallen from 1862 2O
boxes in 1881 to 1,748, 457 boxes in 1882,
nor does the American trade look for
any immediate revival"
According to this statement poor
cheese made by our dairymen are now
selling in the London market for frac-
ton over fourteen cents pound, which
is the quoted price for the best article
in the market; hence, as our poor ar
ticles sell in this market at the present
time all the way down to six cents q
pound for iron-clad skins, we see 10
great mystery about who pays for car
rying cheese over the Atlantic. The
falling off in our exports is not a mat
ter for congratulation, and every man
who is interested in the business should
take these facts under serious considera-
nu1ys Tn 1sch k<11 o
us that we are consuming our best
cheese at home and sendingour poorest
abroad. The uniformity of prices
quoted in London and New York, when
we consider the cost of freight, added
to the London price, makes it look very
much as if this statement may be true.
or else somebody was losing a good
deal of money for the sake of selling in
the English market.
The inquiry is interesting. Is it true
that we have stopped exporting our best
m AXE of cheese, and if SO whyp Do we
consume all of it here at homep There
is certainly no other market taking it at
be- ter prices than those quoted on the
Nrw York Boards. This may be read
as good sign or bad one just as you
take it. Either we are consuming more
good cheese or we are manufacturing
less. We have neither seen nor heard
Of any evidence Of. a greatly augmented
home consumption, while we have seen
and heard of a great decline in the
amount of good cheese manufactured.
and what is more, substitution of vile
and fraudulent goods made up of every
compound that will 60 to make an imi-
tation article sufficiently close to de-
ce.ive the average buyer.
These goods are doing exactly what
We said they would do. In fact, the,
ara not doing, but have already done,
mischief predicted. They have ab+
stely superseded the honest article in
tie London market, and now first-class
american goods cannot be found on that
market, and the natural results follow.
ing-the English press is calling atten-
ton to the present state of affairs, and
suggesting the propriety OF their farmers
taking advantage of the occasion to
improve their own make and thus win
back the market that our goods haa
taken away from them.
We call the attention of our cheese
makers to this handwriting on the wall,
and warn them that if they persist in
the manufacture of bogus goods they
will soon be in want Of market for
honest gooos.-Americnn Ddirynldn.