Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-05-03


Last year the same tenant made butter on
Iy at the rate of three hundred pounds per
week.
The chief diaries of the state are in these
coast valleys where climate favors the pro-
duction of butter and cheese. Many cease
operations and let their cows go dry when
feed is scantiest-from Nov. 20 Jan. inclu-
sive. Then prices go up and lovers of
fresh butter must pay from so to IS cents
per pound, and cheese 80 to 35. Tempted
by these high prices some farmers buy hay,
bran and shorts, feed their cows and con-
tinue to make butter. Let US hope they
will soon amend all this and learn to make
two profits by raising their own extra feed.
Yet this is not possible for all. Many large
dairy farms in Marin and Sonoma counties
are so entirely composed of steep hills,
there is hardly a chance for kitchen garden
and orchard.
Every afternoon man must be sent
riding on a mustang" all over these hill
sides to drive home the COWS that seldom
have other food than the native, wild gras-
ses. RoOt-crops are seldom cultivated es-
pecially for cattle and those dairy farmers
who rent land can seldom afford the ex-
peuse of fencing for tillage.
Improved stock is becoming more COM
mon and a certain pride is growing that
will result in improved care for all the
milky mothers" Beef in market is often
of inferior quality-pretty surely so during
the season of short feed. Beeves are never
stall-fed-but sometimes extra food is Civ
en- to prepare them for market.
Dairy work in all its details is done al
most entirely by men. Cinnamon make
very fair mixers and are sometimes en-
trusted with the care of milk and the whole
process of butter making but knowledge
of that fact would hardly add to the fair
fame of that particular pat Of butter. y
Upon the whole, dairy farming grows in
favor, spite Of the threatened competition
from Chicago, and Just that competition is
needed to stimulate development of our
neglected resources. The wonderful ra-
pidity with which California was settled,
was only equalled by the wholly unsettled
condition of her restless, excitable popula-
ton. In those early days" the frantic
multitude thought to make no further use
of FL Dorado than to gather as many as
possible of her portable Chunks" and
piles of golden dust, and carpet-bag them
away to the olden homes. But from gold
fever and gold-plethora we are now safely
canvalescent; and our state goes on to So
Der maturity-her Wildcats are sown, the
harvest reaped and garnered in the store
house of experience.
She has still her periodical sensations
big strikes" and unparalleled discover
les, = that stir up and float off whatever is
left of the restless elements. Just now
they foat-with blankets, grub pick
and shovel to the mountains of San Diego
whose hidden treasures must respond to
| their open Sesame" But this ever re-
curing stampede to new diggings no lon
ger disturbs the equilibrium OF the body
| polite" Too many there are who remem-
Der the queer crop" they helped to garner
in the aforesaid storehouse, and whose
best profits are some grains of common
sense and sober stay at-homeativeness.
Farmers and mechanics are becoming
dimly conscious that upon their broad
shoulders grave responsibilities rest, anC
mainly to their strong hands is entrusted
the fashioning Of permanent prosperity.
Merchants who have 'swelled with pride
over immense shipments of Bullion, ar,
now ready to join with all other classes il
the query-"How shall we manage to keey
a fair share of this treasure for promotion
of home industries, for building our rail
roads, our ships, our universities and al
the other good things great state mus
hGe?"
So all our signs of the times are IN favo
of more substantial progress than we hav
hitherto enjoyed.
Manufacturing, so long held back b.
high rate of interest and high price of la
Dor, is now acknowledgment with gian
strides-but with such moderate pace a
finally gets over the ground.
Our great and constantly increasin
? wool-crOp has caused the erection {
} several large wooden mills at San Francis
: co and elsewhere-that turn out variou
and excellent fabrics. One enterprisin
little WOODEN factory is lately started ava
3 in Mariposa Cots busy wheels turne
e by the same sparkling waters that hav
, whirled dizzily over the cliffs of Yo Semit.
a A cotton mill was started at Oakland
not so much for fabrics as to supply spe
cial necessities arising from our then ist
8 lated position. Silk culture and manufa,
ture is engaging much attention and prom
ises excellent results; the cocoons alread
|, produced are said to be larger and strong,
!, than those of France, and the woven fal
: ric is admired for lustre and quality.
. A colony of japanese above Sacrament
have commenced tea-culture, fsh-cultul
l. and several other specialties
II And in towns, cities and various local
ties there rises the hum and buzz of a
sorts of industries; but time and space 70
3. bid the telling how many and prosperol
E. are the iron foundries, machine shops tai
n neries, marble works, sugar refneries, fol
s mills, lumber mills, powder mills, pap
K mills and establishments little and big f
!. the making of earthen ware, tin war
10 wooden ware, bottles, brushes, brooms, bee
, boots, books, fuse, furniture, fire cracker
q soap, spices, soda-crackers, shoes, stocking
!, saddles, candles, matches, carriages, ha
ness, freight wagons, wine, rag carpe
pianos, photographs, patent medicines al
any number of etc.'s, for no rapid SUNNI
ry can recall them all and new enterpri
. es continually turn up in way tn
~ would delight any reasonable ''Micawber
- At our County and State Agricultur
Is Fairs and the greats Francisco Mocha
70 les Fair there is always something to d
10 light and surprise even the complace
Californian but while the general avera
of production is more satisfactory, we he
So not quite so often as formerly of the 'ent
'st mites" of vegetable growth--or is it tt
they have become too common-too n