The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-24

unoceupied Land over whish the grain shall
wave, thu corr leaves rustlo, and che cotton
bloom: we have leagues Of now tenantless
soil, in which the yam shall burrow which
the fragrant Indian weed shall shade and
over whose fowery turf the bleating focks
shall stray. But In the new promised land
rs in that elder one far away, the portion of
soil designated by the great All Father to
Aow with RilE, II ROT With honey, Is limited
in les area, and itS boundaries are 40 placed
that 10 man eaz move then.
Guppooire them that the whole country ic
20 bv inhabited by on agricultural people, 1t
seems plain that The asGand for dairy prn-
ducts will insrcasc inRaeAd OF diniuieh since
man snd kansAs shepherd will DO &c nsaEy
additional customers for the products OF our
cream pets and ehcaae watts. Every addition
al rice swamp, hemp fold and sugar-canc
plantation are 10 many sure indications that
more pans OF milk must be set for cream,
more cuvd must be tempered for the cheese
vat.
But eur couetry In not ell 20 DO peopled by
persons engaged IN agriculture The great
coppeI end iron deposits bsside tho Pictured
Rocks OF Lake Superior the rich silver lodes
along the rugged sides Of the SierFc Eevadas;
the golden sands ie the gulches Of Colorsdc !;
the gilded quGYtE on the mountain sides of
Montana; the veins of scarlet einnbar on the
peaks that overlook the Pacific not to mea-
tion that dark but preciele substance nearer
our source OF light and heat, will require for
their working greater number OF miners
than any country ever employed, or any ns
tion ever knew.
As the country incresscs in wealth and
population. manufacture ire to Increase TO
an extent CT which we have now no example
in anything. except in the mekinR Of agricul
| turel Implements, and cotton cloth. Farm,
ing and numbering are ordinarily the first eril.
pigments that engage the attention Of the
early settlers OF any country: but Is wealth
increases, and the population multiplies, the
AAxt move IL in the direction Of manufac
lures. What surp1uc money there is In new
country lie almost sure TO be invested in pay.
ing for land. until the large trscts belonging
! to the government and TO corporations are
secured Farm buildings arc the first erect
ed then arise the machine shop. the foundry.
ard the factory. To manage tho lathes, for.
ges and spindies require many laborers. who
become consumers OF dairy products. We in
the Northwest have passed through this first
stage OF Development, and are just entering
upon the second. Rock and Fox rivers will
soon be USED for other purposes than turning
the wheels OF . few grist mills and slfording
water for the stock that feed along their
banks. Is the cotton fields advance West
ward, and the sheep leave the rocky hill sides
OF the East for the vast plains so long occu-
pied" by the buffalo, new Manchesters and
| Lowells will spring up at every spot where
the falling water has so long sang its song OF
welcome.
Other minor causes are now operating, and
will probably for years longer continue to
operate, 90 favorably influence the demand
for dairy products, aud to keep up their price
Fer instance, since the first settlement Of the
country pork has been the leading article Of
meat diet for a large number OF the inha bit.
ants. Hogs were so quickly bred and so cas-
ilY fattened, that their flesh was afforded at
an almost nominal cost. With the advent Of
| 4 "a hnU cfhon
regiment of troops that went to the field un
der either flag, required the slaughter OF
large number of swine. This great demand
Efcr pork continued for several years. and we
have not yet recovered from the effects of this
wholesale slaughter.
i Fat Of some kind seems to be a necessary
part of the diet of every people, though vari-
Gus are the forms in which it is eaten The
! people on either shore of the Mediterranean
use the oil of the olive, while our fellow citi-
zens in Alaska delight to revel IN the oil of
the seal and the blubber of the whale. In the
| place of sweet oil or fish oil, we have used the
| fat CT the hog and while the price was low
4 and the trichin& were unknown, this formed
our chief article Of oleaginous food Now
there is disposition to substitute butter for
it, both from the growing prejudice against
the use of pork and from les higher price as
ompared with former years.
/ AS to cheese, we all know how it is gaining
in favor. No longer regarded as mere con
diment and appetizer, it is fast beginning to
/ take its place among the substantial articles
of common fsod. We are fast learning what
the people Of Europe and Asia found out so
! long ago, that cheaper and better article of
diet could be obtained from the milk of ami
mails than from their flesh Cheese has very
many things to commend it as an article Of
| food, apart from its containing so large an
amount of nutriment. 1t does not require to
| be cooked as meat does; hence by it's use
there is the saving of fuel and the greater
saving OF time spent in its preparation.
There is no loss in bone, and nothing is vast
ed by being burned in the oven or scorched
on the gridiron, No chemist, no psychologist,
and, for that matter, no steward Of any large
boarding establishment has ever tested the
value OF cheese as compared with meat. at
the respective prices they now bring, who has
not given the preference to the former on the
score Of economy.
| For these and many other reasons that
! might be given, there would seem to be no
cause for the prophecies of some modern Jer-
emiahs in relation to the coming destruction
| of our interests. | am well aware that few
years ago the profits of the hop field and sheep
walk were greater than those of the dairy
/ farm and to short-Sighted men the prospects
of the former looked brighter than did those
of the latter But because these interests
have failed from perfectly natural causes, let
70 aspiring Gibbon think himself warranted
in preparing to write the 'Decline and Fall''
of American Dairying. The demand for hops
was always limited and a few counties, at
most, were sufficient to supply the amount
that was needed tor all the breweries this
side of the RUNE. AS to wool, the fleeces
produced in this country came in competition
with those raised in four great continents,
not to mention an island larger than the
United States, wehre the expense Of raising
sheep is almost limited TO furnishing them
with supply of salt and water.
STATE AID FOR DAIRY IMPROVEMENTS.
| In view of the great amount of capital in
| vested in dairying, and of the important re-
| lations which this department of industry
bear, not only to general husDandry, but to
! the whole community in furnishing some of