Excerpt from Evidence of James W. Robertson, Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying, Before the Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization, April 1898 A. Yes; but they prefer creamery. Incidentally, the sale of dairy butter is important, as men owning dairy farms write to friends and say We get so much. In that way information about that country as a dairy country, and the locali ties suitable for cattle, gets conveyed abroad. To each of the patrons of these creameries we send a statement of business, which shows every farmer's account, and he learns what every. Other farmer's herd realized. These statements are of great educational value. If one man's yield of butter is smaller than others, he looks after getting better cows and giving them better management. I sent trial shipments from the creameries to Great Britain, partly to test the market and partly to advertise the country. The results in that latter sense were satis factory though the prices were not, for the reason that in England, owing to the engineers' strike and the mild weather of last fall, prices dropped four cents a pound while Our butter was on the ocean. Canadian creamery sold better last winter, in proportion to Danish, than ever before. In January the quotations of the Danish were from 98 shillings to 104 shillings, while Canadian were from 98 shill ings to 102 shillings. Four years ago our butter was 20 shillings below theirs. Q. I saw there had been a shipment from St. Mary's which brought one and Sixpence above the best Danish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.