Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
DAIRY PRODUCTS
USE INCREASES
American Consumption Is Stead
lily Growing, Says Head Of
Dairy Congress.

Washington.-Only the healthy and
growing condition of the American
dairy Industry has enabled it to with
stand the drop In exports which came
with the world 1adjustment. This
also has been aided by growing
taste OF the American people for dairy
products, says DR.. II. Il. Van Norman,
president Of the Worlds Dairy Con-
gress association, which Is preparing
Tor Its international meeting here In
October
The United States has reached 4
point where the production and con.
sumption Of dairy products are almost
equal,' d. Van Norman said, "as
Is Indicated by the fact that It's ex-
ports and Imports of dairy products
nearly balance.
"fhc fact is that our dairy industry
Is in healthy condition and 1t is kept
so by our peoples growing apprecia.
ton OF dairy products. The fact that
our consumption of dairy products to.
day almost equals our production lndl-
Gates tremendously rapid growth In
appreciation.
Foreign Market Active.
while our foreign business In but.
ter and cheese does not reach great
volume, our domestic markets are con.
stantly Influenced by the conditions
that obtain in the world markets. The
foreign business which we do carry on
In dairy products also frequently has
an Importance out of all proportion to
Its size In the stabilizlng OF our do
nestle conditions. A few weeks ago,
when our cheese market was particu-
larly slow, an opening for cheese oc.
Cured in England. Our owners of
stored cheese Immediately 'unloaded'
as much as they could on the Eng.
lish market. The deficit was caused
by the failure of New Zealand, where
the creamerles are equipped to manu-
facture either butter or cheese, to pay
the usual attention to cheese.
"That the American merchants
grasped the opportunity just in the
nick of time Is evidenced by cable
gram from the American agricultural
trade commissioner, stationed at Lon
don, recently received by our Depart
ment of Agriculture, stating that the
American cheese now on storage in
England amounts to $4,000 boxes,
against about $1,000 boxes year ago,
and that the Australian cheese on st0r-
age amounted to $1,000 crates, against
trifle more than $4,000 crates year
ago; but that Australia had $4,000
crates Of cheese atloat and bound for
England, about 1000 crates more than
she had on the water at this time last
year. II we had needed to unload
butter on the English market we would
not have had the same fortune, for the
cablegram states that England has in
storage $4,000 boxes of Australian
butter, an increase of $4,000 for the
year.
Biggest Market is at Homo
at is noteworthy that, in spite of
increased production, the United
States is shipping less butter today
proportionately than 1t did in the FIVE
year period before the war.
"While the American dairyman Is
finding tremendously important mar
ket at home, new group of dairy ma
lions Is rising to grasp the interna.
tional markets Equipped with
large proportion of American ma
chinery and to very great extent d.
rected by graduates Of American agrl-
cultural colleges, New Zealand, Aus
tralia, Argentine republic and Canada
all countries with small populations
Of milk consumers and large popula-
lions Of dairy cattle-are proving
themselves mighty competitors of the
historic dairy countries Of Europe.
While these countries are in their
youth, with unestimated possibilities
ahead, the older dairy countries have
ron rhad vary paprlv tho limo ~ thoir