Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-12-07
Demand for Cheese.

The Rural New Yorker under this head,
after advancing the opinion based upon " all
accounts that we can get from various parts
Of England" that the cheese crop will, this
year, fall fully one.third below the average
annual make, says
" 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 aud others ia the
immediate neighborhood of factories and who
wish to get fine thing cheap, should lose
no time in laying up the few chceses needed
for family use. They will find goods Of the
finest favor and quality to select from, and
obtain their supplies at reasonable rates
Country grocers in the cheese-making dis
tricts, we think, for the most part manage
poorly in the selection Of their cheese stocks.
Most Of these establishments purchase from
hand to mouth selecting only medium or
poor grades, aud the population in our home
villages find it so difficult TO obtain good ar.
ticle, that purchases are made sparingly, and
consumption, of course, is checked. Double
and treble the quantity Of cheese would be
consumed annually in our home villages, If
really fue goods were put upon the counters
Of our grocers. Cheese consumption is not
promoted by the sale Of refuse stuff like that
found in most Of the shops throughout the
| cheese producing counties Of New York. The
complaint is universal among consumers, that
all the good cheese is shipped away, and that
- tip-top" article is seldom sold on the coun-
ters Of the country grocers Country deal
ers often complain, too that their cheese sales
are slow and it is not much wonder, when
an examination is made Of the wretchcd stuff
which is offered to customers. If the home
trade is to be promoted and consumption in-
creased, it must be by putting before the peo-
pie choice article of food something that
gives real pleasure in the eating, and entccs
to free consumption.
Our best cheese, at exceedingly low prices,
is now being shipped abroad. A portion of
this cheese could be used at home in all our
country villages, if home dealers would only
offer it for sale, instead of letting it 90 out Of
the country, and forcing upon their custom
ers an inferior article, or 90 without
We believe if more attention was paid to
the requirements of the home trade there
would be a much larger consumption of
cheese at better prices to the producer and
more profits to the numerous small dealers in
all our country towns and villages The
home trade in all the leading cheese-produc-
ing counties is managed on the plan Of "com-
suming at home that which the dairyman is
ashamed to sell abroad The poor, second
grade aud refuse cheese is carried to the
neghborng village by dairymen and pelded
out to the grocer, who buys Of course at low
rates and sells at the market rates Of tn,
best. The better way would be to send th
stuff to the large cities, selling it for what i
is, since in large cities there is always de
mand for low priced cheese to supply a Ger
tain class. A low-class cheese is not wante(
In the country, especially among communi
ty which has some knowledge Of what goo,
cheese is.
The system inaugurated by our home deal
ers and dairymen operates to decrease thu
consumption Of cheese in the cheese dairyinl
districts from year to year 1t should b.
abandoned, and only the finest grades 0
cheese put upon the counters of our gro
GERS. In this way every cheese-produc
ing county would soon find good mar
kot at home for considerable portion Of it
goods, which now too often seek distan
market at prices too low for any profit to tn
producer"