Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-23
Census or 1860.

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DAIRY PRoDUcTs-BUTrER AND CHEESE.
Mention is sometimes made of butter
in the Old Testament. The Oldest dis
tinct aIlusion to butter is made by
Herodotus. The Thracians ate it, but
the Greeks regarded il as wonderful
kind of food. Itappesrs TO have served
as an ointment, and used for that pur-
pose. g ~ y go az "a
Tits related by Piutarch that certain
Spartan ledy, visiting Bernice, the wife
of Degoturies, the former smelt SC
strongly of butter that neither could en-
dure the other. Describes speaks Of
the manner of making ii, and GaIeu
treats Of the qualities; but none of the
writer's speak Of it being used, except ai
ointment in the bath, or medicine, By
amy other people, except the Thracians
and the ancient Germans. "a att
Cheese appears to have come into
general use, as food, long before butter,
and to this day it is said that among the
nations Of Southern Europe, the latter
is sold by apothecaries as medicine.
In this country we all know what use
to make of it, or rather, know better
use for it. 1e,w ss
Cheese is made from the milk OF
goats and sheep, az. well as cows The
celebrated Westphalis cheese is said to
derive its flavor from the curd being al
lowed to become putrid before it is COM
pressed. ltGA&
Some of the most favorite makes of
cheese are as follows:
The Parneese is made in the richest
part of the Milesian territory, and is
prepared wholly from skinned milk. 1t
is generally believed that itsrich quali-
ties are owing to the rich grass with
which the cows are fed, as they are kept
housed msis rAas
Guyere cheese is Swiss variety and
is made in the cantons of the Alps,
/ The Cheshire cheese is made 9 in the
English county of that name, to- the ex-
tent CT $4,000 tons annually
Chilten is the highest price cheese.
1t is made principally in Leicestershire.
Suffolk is skim milk cheese, and is
said to keep better than any other yarie
ty. AN@43aAlA ~ WotA
Notwithstanding the large production
of cheese in England, they import
cheese from the United States, and in
1855 they imported 1904 tons from
Holland.
The Chinese are said to have prepar-
ed cheese from the pea and bean.
In Tharingia and Saxony cheese il
made from potatoes. We imported, in
1857, cheese from different countries to
the value of $l43,82l and exported, in
the same period, cheese to the value oil
$647, 428.
The total product of butter in the
United States and Territories, in 1850,
was 3l3, 345, 366 pounds, and in 1860,
ASS, 6Sl, 1872 pounds, worth, at low es-
innate, $4,000, 900, and the amount of
cheese produced in 1850 was IO5, 535 1893
pounds, and in 1860 it was 103, 663, 927
pounds, which shows decrease, strange
as it may seem, of two millions pounds
of cheese, compared with 1850, but an
increase of so per cent. in the produc-
ton of butter. New York is the largest
butter and cheese producing State in the
Union, producing, in 1850, l03 ,O97, $50
pounds of butter, and 8,548. 289 pounds
of cheese.
Pennsylvania comes next, in the
amount of butter produced, making
58, $50, 541 pounds of butter in 1860, but
only 2,508, 500 pounds of cheese in the
same year, while Ohio produced 48,543,.
l62 pounds of butter, and q, los, 1893
pounds of cheese. Illinois, the Empire
State of the West, comes next in order
in the production of butter. Indiana
comes next in order in the number of
pounds of butter produced, but Vermont,
Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
either of the last named States in the
production of cheese. ~mrg awefFVF
It will be seen that New York pro-
duced nearly onefoursh of all the butter
produced in the whole Union, and near
ly half of the cheese. rr.F. - SO
The New England States produced in
1860, 81, 485. $40 pounds of butter, and
AZ, 924, 006 pounds of cheese.
These States have Increased the pro-
duct of butter about 10 per cent, while
the production of cheese decreased q
per cent. W
The product of butter and cheese pro-
duced in the Middle States, in 1860, was
lf9,II9,S7O pounds, and 1858, 938
pounds OF cheese, showing an increase
in the production of butter of about 35
per cent, but falling off in cheese of
nearly 2 per cent. aasss-ssas- IA
The butter made in the Western
States, in 1860, was 1874, 785 ,997 pounds.
and cheese, 22.428, GIL pounds. showing
go increase in butter of about so per
cent, and in cheese about IA per cent,
Ohio is the principal dairy State in the
West. Illinois stands second, and Indi-
ana third. II
Mississippi shows an increase in the
proo1etIon OF butter in ten years of
nearly 1900 per cent. :
minnesota has increased more rapid
~ than any other Western State--show.
ing an increase Of 272, $50 per cent. over
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