Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-17

located IWo WV SulAoA Vhts, ucatiuS dp-
paratus, presses, Occurring room, with
stove for spring and fall curing, 19x42
feet. Box room for storing boxes and
packing cheese 9x20 feet and office 8x16
feet, and stairway located between work
and curing rooms, giving access to the
upper floor, which is used only for storing
and curing cheese, and is all in one room
with windows at the sides, conveniently
located to light and ventilate the room,
an alley 40 feet wide, running length
wise of the room, and door at either end
Of the alley, and racks running from the
alley to the sides of the building, on
which to store and turn the cheese and
you have the building complete.
The building described above has stor-
ing capacity of 10000 lbs. of cheese and a
manufacturing capacity to handle the
milk of 500 COWS daily during the season.
We have made during the past seasoTat
this factory, 10000 lbs. of cheese. Our
manufacturing apparatus is of two kinds,
the Oneida vat with attached heater, and
Charles Millar 81 Sons circulating coil
heater detached, but connected with the
cheese watts by iron pipes and rubber
hose to convey the hot water and steam
for heating the cheese. Both are perfect
and answer the purpose admirably, and
are both manufactured at Utica, n. Y.
We have the last named apparatus in the
factory described which, with fixtures all
ready for business, is worth $4,000. We
have received during the season of 1869,
commencing April LIST and closing Nov. LIST,
235, 900 gallons of milk, making 235,000
lbs. of cheese, which has been sold at Is
to 40 days old for an average of trife
above 10 cents per h., and delivered at
our station. Our charges for manufac-
turing the cheese, furnishing everything
ing and disbursing the proceeds last sea-
son, was cents per Id. With the pros
pect of an increased business the coming
work for 10 cents per 100 lbs less.
The bulk of the cheese made in the
west is sold to wholesale dealers in Chi
cago at prices for all desirable lots fully
equal to prices obtained by factories in
Western New York. The cheese trade
of Chicago must, for the year ending
April, 1870, I think, amount to over
100000, and the West is not as yet
making nearly half enough to supply the
demand. With the increased demand for
our product consequent upon the opening
of great lines of travel and commerce
west of US to the Pacific coast, our dairy
men have sanguine hopes for the future of
the dairy and are stimulated to larger
and better product for future market,
while you in the east, from your proxim-
ity to the seaboard, will always find a
ready and remunerative foreign market
for whatever surplus of fine dairy product
you may have.
The system of farming heretofore pur-
sued in the older of the Western States,
viz: Constant raising and shipping of
grain, has produced its result in soil
somewhat impoverished and the average
yield of grain SO far diminished that we
cannot compete successfully with the
cheaper and richer lands of the newer
wheat growing States west of us; our
farmers are, therefore, driven to some
plan of stock keeping in order to enrich
their farms and make any money farm
ing. We find no other stock so quickly |
and largely remunerative as the dairy,
since the concentration of capital and
labor, by the factory system of dairying, |
makes it a comparatively easy matter for
any man who knows enough to feed and
milk COWS, to make large profits farming.
Hence the success of dairying in the
West.
From pretty thorough acquaintance
with Vermont farmers and farming here
tofore and since the purely fancy values
of your thoroughbred sheep are in great
measure done away with, and their real
value as a profitable stock consequently |
much diminished, and as your lands-a
majority of them - are worth 80 much
that you cannot afford to raise wool at
present prices, | must confess that can
see no other course for your farmers, If
they would farm it at a profit, but TO
keep diaries" This idea would be some
what unpalstable to your sheep men, per-
haps, but apprehend that the profits of
the dairy, as shown by the balance sheet,
would convince them that l am right. |
At all events, will venture the prediction
that in future years the wealtbiest portion
of your State will be that devoted to the
dairy farming, and that you will adopt
the factory system of butter and cheese
making.
The dairy product for the past season
presents the anomalous condition OF a
product largely in excess of any previous
year, disposed of at very high prices, and
30 far cleared as not to leave an excessively
large stock of Americas cheese on hand
in domestic markets, East or West, nor in
foreign markets, and almost a certainty
that the stock on hand will be cleared out
at present quotations, or shade higher
as the season advances, so that dealers will
be ready to handle the early spring pro-
duct az soon as fit for market, and at good
prices, I can account for this state of
thfnno pp1yr tho cnnpnuitiDD -onI ioi
this view / am sustained by good authori-
ties in dairy matters the quality of
the dairy product has been uery mach bet |
ter than in any former year, and the high
prices ruling early in the spring of 1869
induced the sending forward of the great
err portion Of the cheese as soon as cured, |
allowing it to go into immediate con-
sumption, thereby preventing an accumu
lation of stock and the depression in price
consequent almost invariably upon the
holding of any product as plenty as
cheese
If have given above the right view of
the matter, we may very easily establish
three cardinal points of success in dairy
ing. First, and most important of all,
make tie finest possible article aoih aOAich
10 tempt The public taste. Secondly, send
your product forward to market as soon
as fit when current prices are remunera-
tive; and thirdly, manufacture and sell
as much as possible.
have thus given yon at some length a
few facts in connection with our own little
business, and my general views with re-
gard to the subject of dairying. claim
nothing for them except "a individual
opinion, Yours truly,
... JNo T. MARSH
REVENUE ITEMs-.Expebses for medical
attendance, store bills, g., are not proper
subjects for deduction.
Expenses for the repairs of imple-
ments, tools &c, used in business, may be |
deducted