Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-01
CHEESE EXPORTS GROW
BULK or L. 8. Product Is being Eaten
by English Civilians.

among the American exports which
have risen grontly in volume since the
beginning Of the war must he counted
cheese; not the fancy varieties like
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manufactured extensively in New York;
State-but just plain American Cheddars,
the pale yellow stuff that makes the
uulck-unch sandwich, catches the Ameri-
can mouse and has made the circular.
and vacant hole famous
Before the war the exporting If cheese
70 Europe amounted to nothing, fori
America had grown so in population that
1t ate all Its own cheese, and more, too e
AZ the present time, according to figures
obtained at the Mercantile Exchange by
the Evening Post, New York alone ia
shipping about 5000 boxes week each
box containing some fifty pounds. max
ing total Of 10000 pounds Canada Is
shipping some 10000 boxes a week.
The present demands of the British
army are for about 10000 pounds a
week. Cheese makes a good ration for a;
Tommy Atkins. because Of it's great
nour1shinG value and because Of it's fine
keeping qualities AS Great Britain puts
more and more men into the field she
naturally needs more and more cheese
Wisconsin is the leading cheese-pro-
ducng State of the United States. and
Il IS estimated that by slight alterations
In the creameries and factories In allied
lines. Wisconsin alone could take care Of
the war demand, just as the locomotive
and automobile and stee-car factories
are taking care Of ammunition orders.
However, Il is learned on the very
best authority that German editors have
not written any editorials saying that.
IL it We're not for Americas unneutral ,
shipments Of cheese for use by the
Allies, the war would have been over
long ago The reason for this is that,
far as can be learned. none Of the.
American cheese is eaten BY soldiers
The Specifications for the cheese used
in the British army call for a meaty.
close cheese, without any holes in tt
quite different kind from the Ameri-
can, which is light soft, spongy and full
of empty holes Tfe British army has
been using Canadian and Holland cheese
in the summer and New Zealand cheese
in the winter The supply of Canadian
cheese is abundant; and cheese men say
that they do not think the American kind
had displaced 1t vet. In fact. the de-
mand has been falling off of late.
Now as 70 the reason why America
has been sending cheese to England for
the last six months. When the cotton
market broke SO disastrously. great
numbers of laboring people in the South
were thrown out of employment and had
to cut luXur!"s out of their fare. Cheese
was one of the first to go; and the New
York cheese factories We're left with about
a half-million boxes to do something
with. The only thing to do was to ship
1t to England, and get what they could
for it. In England there were a great
many well-tO-do people who had TO econ
omizo on account Of their bread-winners
being off at the war; so they ate pota-
toes au gratin and cheese souffiee, and
even made cheese an entree Thus. tho
American product was absorbed. and
what they couldn't cat that day tho
queen next morning sent to the starving
Belgans