The daily star-mirror., 1923-07-25
DAIRY PRODUCTS
USE INCREASES
American Consumption Is Stead
lily Growing, Says Head of
Dairy Congress.

Washington.-OnIy the healthy ant
growing condition of the American
dairy industry has enabled it to with
stand the drop In exports which came
with the world readjustment. This
also has been aided by a growing
taste of the American people for dairy
products, says DR.. H. e. Van Norman,
president Of the Worlds Dairy Con-
gress association, which Is preparing
for its international meeting here In
October.
"The United States has reached a
point where the production and con-
sumption of dairy products are almost
equal" D. Van Norman said, "as
Is indicated by the fact that its ex-
ports and imports of dairy products
nearly balance.
''The fact is that our dairy industry
is In healthy condition and it is kept
SO by our peoples growing apprecia-
tion OF dairy products. The fact that
our consumption of dairy products to-
day almost equals our production indi-
Gates a 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 stabilizing 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
Hsh market. The deficit was caused
by the failure of New Zealand, where
the creameries 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 a 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
amounts to 14.O0O boxes,
against about 81, 900 boxes = year ago,
and that the Australian cheese on stor-
age amounted to $1,000 crates, against
a trife more than 1900 crates year
ago; but that Australia had $4,000
crates of cheese afloat and bound for
about II, 900 crates more than
she had on the water at this time Last
year. If we had needed to unload
butter on the English market we wtnld
not have had the same fortune, for the
cablegram states that England has In
423,OOO boxes of Australian |
butter, an increase Of $4,000 for tho |
year.
Biggest Market 10 at Home.
'It is noteworthy that, in spite OF
Increased production, the United
States is shipping less butter today
than it did In the five
year period before the war.
"While the American dairyman Ia
hiding a tremendously important mar
xet at home, a new group Of dairy ma
ions is rising to grasp the interna-
.ional markets. Equipped with q
arge proportion Of American ma
,hinery and to very great extent d.
'ected by graduates Of American agri-
.ultural colleges, New Zealand, Aus
ralia, Argentine republic and Canada
all countries with small populations
4 milk consumers and large popula-
ions Of dairy cattle-are proving
themselves mighty competitors Of the
historic dairy countries Of Europe.
While these countries are in their
outh, with unestimated possibilities
head, the older dairy countries have
cached very nearly the line of their