Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-03-02
Notes OF Affairs I'm Trunlbun
Comfy.


Notes OF Affairs I'm TruuabuUl
County.
The editor of the DINO Farmer visited
this section last week, and gives the
readers of his paper the benefit of his oh
servations as follows:
DAIRY BUSINESS.
The sale of cheese and butter has nioe-
ly lined the pockets of the dairy farmers.
Some Of the cheese buyers engaged in
June 10 pay seven and n half cents per
b. for cheese, out of which contracts thew
made a good speculation. Then in july
prices came up to eight cents, Angus,
eight and = hall. September nine cents
October ten and n half to eleven cents.
md for choice lots eleven and a half
On this rage of prices, Mr.. Squibb of Mes
opctamia, purchased one hundred tons at
a general average of nearly ten cents
Capt. James Caldwell of Pennington pur-
chased over two hundred tons at an aver
age OF nine and seven-eigbth cents. Mr..
Beecher Of GarrettsVille, over one hun
dred and fifty tons, averaging nine and
one fourth cents. mostly on early con-
tracts. These were all dairy cheese and
did not include anything from the cheese
factories in those counties, which latter
sold the manufactures at several cents
per 10. higher than the private diaries
In Warren, the co1nty seat of Trumbull.
found that the principal dealers in
cheese had purchased an aggregate OF
some twelve hundred tons, of the last
seasons make.
CHEESE FACTORIES.
The result of last seasons experiments
with the cheese factories in this region
has convinced the dairy farmers that this
IS the most successful and economical
mode of carrying on the business ofcheese
making. a new factory is tn be built in
the Spring at the village of Parkmau. by
Mr. Budlong of New York City, who last
year had charge Of factory in Charlton.
This factory Is 10 use the milk of not less
than eight hundred COWS, which milk Mr..
Budlong will purchase outright, instead
of working up on shares, or at SO much
per pound for the cheese. which are the
more common modes of working at the
cheese factories.
TIE FLAX BUSINESS.
At the center of Pennington l turned
aside IN my journey TO investigate a new
lax mill recently set in operation on o
llitle water power al that place, by Messrs.
Reynolds & Msitby. This part of the
county of Trumbull, and a part of Portage
county adjacent, has largely increased
the production of fax, the township OF
Pennington alone having produced some
two hundred acres last year. Messrs
Reynolds & Maltby. the managers of this
new fax mill have purchased some 25C
'-,E ~ Il ~ - - &c ,-l.zl -
stacked up in their yards, but they havs
worked up sufficient 10 test the superior
tTy of their machinery, and their skill n
manufacturers. / have no where seen
such nicely worked fibre as shown me Of
this mill. the peculiar excellence of which
| attribute TO the care which these gen.
iiemen exercise in working it. N the
first place they have the best fax break
l ever saw. being aseries of fourteen pairs
J Of hated iron rollers working in O semi
circle as the circumference of TWO large
/ oOS-wheels, hy which the rollers are driy-
en-each cog wheel giving separate mo-
l ton to the alternate pairs of rollers; the
ibre Is then passed through a picker,
} which delivers it almost free Of sbives.
aud perfectly free of knots, which is not
the case when the fibre is passed through
/ a tow-devil- With this preliminary
, handling, when the fax comes from the
s~cutcher, it is as handsome as if hand
: broke, hackled and scutched. The straw
Is purchased in all condiiions-mowed
r pulled, green and rotted, or tangled and
unrotted. The straight flax after being
cls sed, is put in hanks sor spinning int
: tim cad, the tangled is cleaned and press
ed into bales OF 225 rs. each, ready fol
shipment, TO be spun into rope-yarn,
Irvine, &c.
f About a year ago l had occasion to LeS
cTioe the fax mil of Mr.. Camp, at Wsr
rem | now find another new mill at that
r place put up and owned Ly Mr.. Derr;
both these mills are located at the uppe
dam. where the Atlantic and Great West.
: ern Railroad crosses the Mahoning River,
2 end are doing q good business. From
: Warren south into Welcoming county, is
: the best fax region in E,stern OHIO, and
/ i second only to the valley of the Great
= Miami IN the region Of Dayton.
t Besides these fax mills at Warren and
Pennington. there Is M at Newton Falls.
: in the southwest ner of Trumbull. and
? | learu that Mr.. Jas. G.. Calendar formerly
| in the stone pump business at the Falls
mas started a e fax mill in the border
| of Mahoning county, adjacent.
PRODUCTION OF FLA SEED.
4 gentleman connected with the De
partment of Agriculture at Washington
says that the returns of the estimates tC
that Department indicate an increase Of
fax products in Ohio double or treble
? that OF 1862, and asks if this can be true
| have been investigating this subject du.
ring the last two weeks and come to the
= conclusion that the average of fax in Ohio
/: for 1868, over the proceeding year, wa.
about fifty per cent. more, but from the
; partial failure of the seed crop, the yielo
0 of seed in 1853, taking the State thrcugl
. was but y trI1e if any larger than the
yield of 1862, or other preceding years
This conclusion is further confirmed By
the fact that | found faxseed selling al
/ the oil mill in Warren at ST. % per bushel
/ 1t which price, or at a range from g, Il
S2.25. forty Thousand bushels have beer
, purchased at that mill the past season.
[ was glad to see that the farmers o
Trumbull begin to learn the value of oil
cake for feeding stock, as they have pur
chased to the extent of five hundred ton.
of oil cake at the mill in Warren, at a cos
d o. $50 per ton.
STONE ARE INF
st Warren | found that Messrs. Love
lac = Inw-,alrz. ~ Eli