. Canada; a descriptive text-book . to dairying each succeeding year with good results. Cheese andbutter factories are built throughout the country, in the East at veryshort intervals, and to these almost every farmer sends milk. Afavourite plan is to have two sets of machinery and to make cheese dur-ing the summer and butter during the winter. The cheese industry isone of the most important and is growing with great rapidity. Nearlyall the cheese is shipped to Britain in whose markets it is a favourite on CANADA. 45 account of its good quality. The export of butter on a large scalebegan later
. Canada; a descriptive text-book . to dairying each succeeding year with good results. Cheese andbutter factories are built throughout the country, in the East at veryshort intervals, and to these almost every farmer sends milk. Afavourite plan is to have two sets of machinery and to make cheese dur-ing the summer and butter during the winter. The cheese industry isone of the most important and is growing with great rapidity. Nearlyall the cheese is shipped to Britain in whose markets it is a favourite on CANADA. 45 account of its good quality. The export of butter on a large scalebegan later and the volume of trade is not nearly so large as that ofcheese but it is overtaking its rival. Large areas of the country areparticularly well adapted for dairying and Canada seems destined totake a first place in this particular business. The closest attention isbeing paid by government and people alike to perfecting the bestmethods for carrying it on and so far no industry has given betterreturns for the care bestowed upon On ever\r farm there are flocks of poultry. The cities of the UnitedStates have always furnished a considerable market for dressed poultryand eggs. Now the introduction of cold storage has made it possibleto ship them to-Britain so that the trade seems capable of indefiniteextension. The eggs are gathered up regularly by buyers who drivethrough the country and call at each house once or twice a fortnightduring the summer. A short time before Christmas the turkeys, geeseand other fowl that have been fattening are killed, dressed and takento what is called the turkey fair. Here they are bought by dealerswho ship them to the various markets for the Christmas trade. So im-portant is this trade considered that in some particularly suitable 46 CANADA.
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