American Cheese Abroad

The extent to whieh American cheese is being imported into Ayrehire and retailpfl at prices greutly under the cost of the home produce, is beginning to teil in a way tliat was hardly anticipated by dairy farmers in the county. Many of those farmers, it appears, still find themselves in possession of the bulk of the cheese manufactured last season, with little prospect of getting it disposed of at anything like the figures they have been in the habit of realizing. The result of this is that not a few of them have been compelled to abandon the making of cheese for the present. This, again, has had the effect of increasing the supply of butter and milk in the country so enormously that these commodities are selling at prices unknown during the past decade. Last week fresh butter of the best quality was quoted in the market of the county town at 8}4&. per pound, or less than half the price for which it was sold at the corresponding date of last year. The reduction per gallon in the price of milk, resulting from the increased competitiou induced by the suspension of the cheese manufacture, would seem to be equally marked. For Glasgow and other large towns the supply available at present is far in excess of the demand, and farmers are said to be at their wit' end in regard to the disposal of their milk. At almost any hour of the day carts contaming ban els of milk may be seen in some parts of Ayr in charge of persons endeavoring to secure purchasers, but who not unfrequently are obliged to take the article home unsold to be served out to pigs, ■which are this season. bei nc vpn-n'i in larger nuniDers tiian is ordiuanly the case in Ayrshire. Should this state of facts continue, the results can hardly fail to be serious, more particularly for such farmers (and these are said to be not a few (as have vvithin the last year or two entered upon new leases at