Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-01
Demand for Cheese.

We have letter from Derbyshire, Eng
land, in which it is reported that dry
weather had prevailed continually up to
the second week in August. The writer
states that only few showers have fallen
since spring, and that grass and water are
very scarce in many places. The wheat
crop is reported to be good, but oats and
other spring crops are short and poor.
At the Derby cheese factory the manag-
ers have been advertising for more milk
owing, our correspondent says, no doubt to |
the dry weather. He is also sorry to hear |
that the English factory cheese is not so |
good as was expected, but he speaks of the
Derby cheese market as about to open, end
that in a few days the make will be farther
tested, when the comparative merits of the
factory cheese must be very fully deter
mined. We are hoping to get favorable
report, and we cannot but think that with
the skillful American manufacturers en-
ployed at the Derby establishment, the
cheese must prove superior to that made
at the farm diaries.
From all the accounts that we can get
from various parts of England it appears
that the cheese crop this year will fall, by
reason of drouth, fully one-third below the
average annual make This would show a
deficiency of about sixty millions of lbs
or quantity equal to that covered by our
annual export. 1t is very probable also
that the German soldiers, composing the
Prussian armies, draw largely upon the
product of Dutch cheese, which must cut
off supplies to the English from the CONT
nent. Now, if our information is correct,
the prospect is that larger shipments of
American cheese will be demanded for
England the coming fall and winter than
ever before. The crop in America is by
no means so large as was anticipated early
in the season. Putting all these items to-
gether we cannot but think that cheese has
already touched crock bottom" prices, and
that an advance may with reason be ex-
pected.
If there be at any time temporary de-
cline in prices, it must result from very
unwise action on the part of farmers and
cheese producers in pushing forward their
product in large quantities, thus for the
time overstocking the New York markets.
This, under any circumstances, must de-
preciate prices. Cheese during warm
weather should 90 forward no faster than
it can be conveniently handled and put
upon the market New York dealers are
not prepared to hold cheese in hot weather
for any considerable length of time. Nor
do they care to take the risk at such sea-
son with the prospect of large arrivals
weekly accommodating upon their hands.
Hence the market must be cleared; and
forced sales always tend to the deprecia-
ton of prices.
Our home dealers who are in the habit
, of laying up considerable stocks for winter
, sales, will do well, we think, to engage
! their stocks early at the factories, setting
, the time for their deliveries. Farmers and
others in the immediate neighborhood Of
factories, and who wish to get a fine thing
. cheap, should lose no time in laying uT
the few cheeses needed for family use
They will find goods of the finest flavor
4 and quality to select from, and obtain theil
! supplies at reasonable rates.-X. A. VII
: LARD in Rural NeU Yorker.