Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-06-07
Of the Iowa Homestead.
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Trav.l profteth- well told tales Of travel
interest. A visit TO neighborhood-a COM
munity Of farmers engaged well and success
fully in a novel branch Of industry, is pleas
ant and profitable. We enjoyed such visit
a few months since when returning from the
great city. We were let down from the train
at one Of the dairy villages Of New York.
The village was nea, and cleanly, tes,ifying
Of thrift and capital. We hied to the farm
Of loved ones and rested.
The language of a business new and
strange saluted US. Ii was talk Of dairy
mems interests--of the best COW feed-the
best management Of cows the lest pastures
the best " soiling" crops-ihe best time
for marketing dairy produc,s-.he best man
agement Of meadows, curing Of hay. &c.
The farm stretching out upon the hills and
valleys were innocent of the plow. All was
green, closely shorn meadow and pasture
land. The farm. houses all wore quiet
look-a look of leisure and ease in that In
dian-summcr time which was intensely agree
able and pleasant. There was also same>
ness which was marvelous-all bad the same
look Of rest-the same quie. exterior, and
beside each, upon rough benth, rested the
index Of all-the capacious rai!k pans used
in conveying the daily yield Of milk from the
farm to the factory, where it was worked in
TO cheese. No pen can paint The quiet beau
" Of such scene-the dairy farm with the
busting house-labor attending the daily
manufacture Of the milk wanting perftim-
ed at the factory and the house resting all
day quiet. The morning milking Of the pa
tient cows, the evening milking, The delivery
of the milk, and the daily meals, made the
round of life. Leisure for rest, comfort, ru-
raj visiting "a rare thing. generality and
sports were all found and fully enjoyed. We
entered into this changed condition Of things
with an interest intensified by memories of
hard days of plowing on these same soils for
scanty crops-farming which scarcely gave
balance sheet return in favor Of the tilling.
Yes, we noted evidences OF change and
growth in wealth, and listened to reports Of
increased returns highly profitable results,
with an interest we would gladly transmit to
this description. The cheese factory two miles
away had wrought the change--had yielded
an annual profit of from $50 to 800 per
COW, as the cheese product ruled up or down.
We visited the factory here is what we saw
A capacious, cheaply constructed build
ing, l75 feet by 32 feet, and l6 feet high.
As it is only used in summer, it need be lit
tie more than shelter. It was easily ac-
cessible, and located centrally to the milk
producing neighborhood-for this was what
the farmers had really become-milk produ.
GERS. We saw the milk weighed in from the
various farm wagons, saw the credits given,
1.-THE loads were light the handling expedi-
tious and easy, and the credits considerable
and satisfactory. Some Of them more dis
tant farmers clubbed, hiring their milk cart.
cd TO the factory by large teams, which came
heavily crushing over the stones. with their
rich load. As we sat there we saw the re.
suit Of labor by community having COM
mon interest. Here are half township of
farmers uniting, daily bringing from fifty or
sixty different farms the milk product Of L.
900 cows. The result is profitable, elevating,
ennobling. The farmers see each other Oft
ener, profit socially, intellectually and gen.
orally. They are less tied up during the
day increase capital more rapidly, hence
feel easier; labor less, hence profit physic-
ally for most farmers do labor too hard. II
| on the down hill road, they must "hold the
load" and up hill must draw it.
| In this factory, with their conyeniences
| IOf WUIk, VIC eoW Ouc HAL oba bWo WOuSh
doing the work of manufacturing and tend
ing the cheese Of 1000 cows. What . sa-
wing of labor is here in the ffty or sixty farm
homes afFording this supply! What a sa-
wing in woman's strength, and labor. Tru-
", the factory system has relieved dairymen
Of its horrors-its lifting, tugging securing
and cleaning. The New York dairyman
may now be styled vender of milk a-man.
ufacturing merchant. The cows, pastures
and meadows, are his productive capital
milk the merchandise produce.
We examined the factory, its novel uten,
sils and apparatus, enquired into the details
of management and noted its surroundings
with the greatest interest. Eighty fine hogs
were in pens not far distant, fed on whey,
with trifing addition Of some kind Of meal.
Most Of the farmers carry home their whey,
feeding it to cows or pigs. Feeding whey to
cows is becoming quite common ; the prac>
tice considerably increases the yield Of milk,
but decreases the product of cheese about
one-ninth, nine pounds of milk making one
pound Of cheese, if no whey is fed, and ten
pounds being required when whey is fed.
There are few finer sights than room one
hundred and seventy five feet long by thirty
two feet wide. as was this chamber with its
closely arranged racks wellstored with cheese.
1t Was good to look Att smelled good, and
We felt like wanting more when allowed a
taste.
The cost of manufacture in this factory
was l cents per pound, the patrons supply
ing each his own proportion Of bandages and
cheese boxes.
The result socially is magni6cently sue
cessful. Woman and man on the farms have
an easier and better time-less heavy dai
~ work to perform, and the business Of dai
rying, which was for nerly dreaded by the
woman is now recommended as pleasant and
profitable. Pecuniarily It is also a success,
cows averaging from $50 to 500 pounds of
cheese, selling readily then At 20 cents, and
now at Is cents per pound, cannot be other
than profitable.
The Daytonians tOhio) are having large
amount Of fun a. the expense Of their Mayor.
By " slip of the pen,' we suppose, be made
the following blunder: hereby issue my
proclamation to the inhabitants Of the city
Of Dayton, warning them that it is unlawful
for any person owning, or having control Of.
or harboring any dog, or animal Of the kind,
to run at large for the term Of sixty DAYS
from the publication Of this proclamation.