The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-05
DAIRY PRODUCTS
USE INCREASES
American Consumption Is Stead
lily Growing, Says Head of
Dairy Congress.

Washington.-On1y 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 REIMBURSEMENT. This
also has been aided by a growing
taste of the American people for dairy
products, says DR.. 81. 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-
ton of dairy products. The fact that
our consumption of dairy products to-
day almost equals our production indi-
Gates tremendously rapid growth in
appreciation.
Foreign Market Active.
while our foreign business In but
ter and cheese does not reach q 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-
larry slow, an opening for cheese &C.
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 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
England amounts to $4,000 boxes,
against about 81 900 boxes = year ago,
ard that the Australian cheese on stor-
age amounted to 200 crates, against
trifie more than 1900 crates a year
ago; but that Australia had 10000
crates of cheese af1oat and bound for
England, about IL 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 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 Home.
at is noteworthy that, in spite of
increased production, the United |
States is shipping less butter today |
proportionately than it did in the five
year period before the war.
"While the American dairyman is
finding q tremendously important mar |
ket at home, a new group of dairy ma J
lions is rising to grasp the interna- |
tional markets. Equipped with |
large proportion of American ma |
chinery and to a very great extent d. |
rected by graduates of American agri- |
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
reached very nearly the line of their
productability.'