Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-29
Dairy Products
In Great Demand

Washington, May 2S.-(By A. Ply
Only the healthy and growing condi-
ton of the American dairy industry
has enabled it to withstand the drop
in exports which came with the
world readjustment. This also has
been aided by growing taste Of the
American people for dairy products,
says DR.. II. E. Van Norman, presi-
dent of the Worlds Dairy Congress
| Association which is preparing for
it's international meeting here in
October.
1.-THE United States has reached a
proint where the production and con-
sumption of dairy products are al
most equal" DR.. Van Norman said,
'as is indicated by the fact that it's
exports and imports Of dairy products
nearly balance.
"The fact is that our dairy industry
| is in a healthy condition and it is
kept so by our peoples growing APP
probation of dairy products. The
fact that our consumption Of our
dairy products today almost equals
| our production indicates a tremen-
dously rapid growth in appreciation.
'While our foreign business in but
ter and cheese does not reach a great
SoluAIlCy OuI uOlIlSSliC uldIkclS are
constantly Influenced by the condi-
tons 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 domestic conditions
A few weeks ago when our cheese
market was particularly slow, an
opening for cheese occurred in Eng
land. Our owners of stored cheese
Immediately 'unloaded' as much as
they could on the English market
The deficit was caused by the failure
of New Zealand, where the cream
cries are equipped to manufacture
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
London, recently received by our
Department Of Agriculture. stating
that the American cheese now on
| storage in England amounts to $4,000
boxes, against about $1,000 boxes a
year ago, and that the Australian
cheese on storage amounted to
| 900 crates, against a trifle more
than $4,000 crates a year ago; but
that Australia had 10000 crates of
cheese afloat and bound for England,
about 1000 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 Eng
land has in storage 423,000 boxes of
Australian butter, an increase Of
$4,000 for the year.
1T is noteworthy that, in spite Of
increased production, the United
States is shipping less butter today
propOrtiOnally than it did in the five
year period before the war.
''While the American dairyman is
finding a tremendously important
| market at home, a new group Of
dairy nations is rising to grasp the
international markets. Equipped
with large proportion Of American
machinery and to a very great extent
| directed by graduates of American
agricultural colleges, New Zealand,
Australia, Argentine Republic and
Canada-all countries with small
populations of milk consumers and
large populations Of dairy cattle, are
proving themselves mighty COMPETE
tors 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 limit of their productability."