New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-31
UNABLE TO TELL WI'Y EE.sSE is CHEAP
DIFFERENT REAsoJs ,iIYEN ny LEADING MBE
CHANls-1HE FO3E.o TRADE

DIFFERENT REAsOJ, ,iIYEN ny LEADING NEE
CHANls-IHE Fo3E.o TRADE.
The solcitude felt by ciIoese merchants Owe
the remarkably low condition ~ the market has not becI
abated much I, cum the price advanced slightly
last week American cheese las been FOR the last twl
months AMI rs at the present do nearly &c per sh
lower than it last yenr st ais n.o and fore -
portatons brlng' Il ON o ccus less per pouDi
than it did in August and serton' Of last SOM
Of the merchants attribute tniJ Of price to tb
general shrinkase IN the values cts products, bg
others consider it merely the al outcome OF over
production. Conversations w.yh o ding exporters
impo ters aud domestic ioalers fl this city reveal MANI
facts connected with the trad0 Il have yet beer
made public
Francis w. Lestrade Of Les ado Brohors 81 Co viii
export large quantities of bu and cheese Sonu
America the West indies and Central America, said th
other day TRIBUNE reporter: The sudden fall tn
price OF American cheese In the West indies and in Tia
South American countries is undoubtedly due to tn
scarcity of labor and tho low prices pai for It, This hal
been low enough all along but just 1t is tai
Yer. Tho people cannot afford to buy much cLeenj
compared with what they have done In other years.
Whore wero exporting 1900 boxes NJ cheese la1
August and September. We are DOw sending about h. .
that number this year. And what do send hayl
been getting and half cents por pound Less tn
prico for tue corresponding months OF last year III
demand for cheese In tue oct lnOs and south msrc
is usually LeIvy, as II forms almost the piinciPl
exported article Of food for the natives The DANISH an
French choose is exported there IN large quantities. Il
they Ear sdrpass the American product IN quality bil
even the de and for their auctions las been essene
nearly one half"
their mode OF manufacture superior that OF tn,
American process e.
no. IT t. not In the manufacture that makes thcB
cheese superior to the American but there IS peculiar
ity IN their grass and milk which makes IL much incl
ia quality. owing 70 TIT, fact American exports to TIE
sOut do not anOunt 10 sixth Of the whole trade: AMI
hhe"iaf 10 butter whch depends upon mo same catSH
for ia quality, We DO not export one tenth OF the who's
trade 70 south America or 70 the west indies. Il
Central America the prices Of exports IoSsiJlI
somewhat affected still Dy the recent war; but 10 nof
these do expect any material rise IN TIT
price NJ cheese before winter About month bcfo1
holidays ilc dcnand always heavy, and then we vii
rcluze higher price"
large imPorerS OF ,ofeign cheese, and dealers 10
fancy cheese Mr.. Gerber, in speaking Of ID,
condition ~ the American cheese trade, said that he
uuurcarcd % speak OF 10, rs he was interested Oul,
American lucy cheese. which aid not huctuac iH pric,
aok ther 10 accordance WIN o'her cheese WIN Fie
t. tOrcigu cheese he sad: In France. German.
Italy aud Holland and In fact In nearly all 81 thi
European countries the low ness or prices tn cheese u
remarkable. Cheese that brought y oeuts last year
c.rar % me- 10 II merely que natural 0H'oJL9 oi oy''
production France and Holland have been man i.rtir
l-g humcls9 quantities. lately. uutl their own market
have become kntt.d' ana IL dcinihh IN lore n on"
j. wholly .uii"imte 10 rcilovo them Of the OEe pro
rruaaDle fall IN tho prices. rui- Is usually the cas-
every summer but never to such extent as thl
5lruhage 10 The value, OF al Aor kiuts Vi produced
and have 30 doubt that such s tbe ca,r, buI NJ
opinion the direct cause IA from undue OvcrlTuluctiDn"
several commission merchants we're then srr Hitl
reference 10 l"e home consumption "l American olces,
the cauac OF IT. present coniidons Al orticin pi'5ne
IN ily pa?cr which s.ud That American iaS.uly q.
too cAsc. to market tLcir goods and c5n5e eutt
gain tlis point they iid net mak- cheese tlt
Rn--aG good tcepIHg qualities WAS sIowL o. srytta
incrchaits an OF whom cmphitical'y to led 4
BE- ihr ,1sc. ono volunteered tie origin of tis epO..
nt follows: NiOlt two years .go there Ul5 dru. j
for low priced cheese, both fDr The home and cXpor
trade. To supply this demand the factory bcgaI
mIuu featuring cheap Cl.!ss 81 goods, tuIi
report claims to 30 the at TIE present day but til
people got sick OF this Of stur and inquired
hUWctIug better We found then tha' co, ii not dis
lo-c OF ho crclp cheese and immedltey demanded
bctt,r quality. since then hs"o 'lH @ IA good
thr,e ~ ini. state I'm any other part the country.
To lu,tra - the truth OF this abatement The CANA
alps are now buying large quantities of the New-lc.i
tlto factory cheese and exporting to thc South aud On
luOpH under the name Of tauHd cE'pse Ihis they
do and nud ready market Tor it, Lower rates
enable tl"m 20 handle e cheaper and sell IL no rodIcci
prices lu foreign markets which OF course Is n great
injury 10 NCw-NOrE merchants. In this manner
cannot always successfully compete with them, fut thea
cheese hIstnc same reputation OF being Of sup iOr
qualify ours while IN reality It is New York aud not
antdaH cheese which they sell NON If cheese dld
not possos, good keeping qualities the tauaiiuus would
lot handle 10 so largely they do. There have 900
chooses Just arrived from the factory. and defy any
nan 10 mud any fault about their Keeping qualities or
else"