Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-12-21
Butt.r r and Checse Factories.

Butt- r and Cheeae Factories
Forty years ago, tho State Of New York
grew surplus Of Grain (WhcaD for cxpor-
tation, and "Gcncscc Flour" was known and
priced in many foreign markets. Canal boats
took iu Wheat at almost every storchousc from
Syracuse westward and brought it to Troy,
Albany, and this City, for manufacture and
sale. Now, all is changed The Gcncsco
valley is no longer mainly devoted to Wheat !;
even the counties west Of Cayuga lake no
longer grow their own Grain. Sheep lusban
dry, once popular, is nov on the wana Dali
ryng is rapidly supplanting all other farming
in our rural districts: and we judge that the
next census will return thrice the number Of
COWS in our State reported in that which pre-
cedcl it by decade. And even Dairyirg it.
self is undergoing decided and rapid trans
formation, through the introduction and null
tiplication of factories for tho systematic aud
wholesale production of Butter and Cheese.
These factories arc located near tho center
of each radius of three or four miles wherein
grass and COWS abound usually but one in
township as yet, though they are being rapid
ly multiplied. A mills stream and water pow
or often determine the Site though VIC believe
small engine and boiler (four to ten horsc)
are preferred to a watcr-power. A cold and
copious spring is we'll nigh indispensable; q
good stock of ice, we'll stored and saved, is do,
sirabo. \ large reservoir (li!se ccllar) i,
dug in tho ground and tightly walled with
planks; board platforms extend into this,
floating on two or three feet Of water, con
stantly renewed from the spring. In this re.
scrvoir, deep pals or cans arc set and filled
threcfourths full of milk-thcy sinking and
floating in like depth Of water. The milk
remains here 81 TO 46 hours, when tho cream
is taken of and churncd by steam or water
powcr--slx to twcnty-four churns being ope
rated AT once, with no draft on human muscle
The Butter thus made each day. from cream in
tho very highest condition, is Of such uniform
and superior quality as to bring from ivo to
ten cents per pound moro than fair farm dai
rics will command And the milk thus
skinned, is then made into Cheese, rather mild
in flavor, but paetablc and Of very fair quail
ty. We mover wish to eat better than some
OF this, made wholly, Of skinned milk, and
sold by tho makers at ten cents per pound to
their entire satisfaction. 1t is cheaper than
, Pork, and may be substituted as staple arti.
ticlc of diet for laboring men, to their great
advantage and comfort
The milk is brought in by tho farmers Of
the vicinagc, weighed MS received, and placed
iii the cooling vat aforesaid The farmers
generally receive a dividend of the proceeds ;
but tho better plan is fast gaining ground Of
paying the cash for it as fast as received it
being speedily turned into Butter and Cheese,
which arc cash articles We estimate that
tho Dairy product Of our State will bc In
creased at least onc-fourth by tho general in.
PRODUCTION Of these factories, and that the
value OF our grass landa will thus be enhanced
at least $50 per acro.--Ncw Yorh Tribunc
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lloME FOR TIE NEunoEs-A oorrcs-
pondcnt Of tho "Ncw York Times" thinks
that Mr., Stewards reiterated attempts to ect
o lootholl in the West Enlics arc 1. part of a
scheme for tho acquisition Of all tho Wcst In.
dia Islands, as a future home for the negroes
OF tho Southern Statos. The great bulk of
tho inhabitants Of Cuba, st. Domingo, jana
lea and adjacent islands, lie says, arc blacks !;
and the proximity Of these negro countries to
ourSouthcrn coastwould make it an casy thine
to bring migration or deportation Of tho two
or three millions Of negroes located in the
States of our Southern soaboard. Tho tropi.
cal climate and luxuriant soil of these sunny
isles would suit them exactly, and they have
"a great advantage in settling down among their
own raco and nature. AZ tho same time, the
4 South would bc glad to got rid of dango.
Ious and antagonistc element, and the fear Of
."negro supremacy would pass away