The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-28
5176G7 pounds manufactured. AT ii


517,6G7 pounds manufactured AT the
average price last season, IA cents per
pound, the farmer would realize the sum
of $72, 46498,- nice little sum for the
dairymen of Wisconsin.
1T is admitted by those who have been
in the dairy business in New York and in
this state, that Wisconsin is better adapt
ed to grazing and the manufacture of
cheese than New York. The hi gh rolling
prairies OF this state, its numerous springs,
lakes and rivers, gives it a preference
and more cheese can be made from the
same quantity of milk in this state than
in New York or Ohio. When our dairy
men first began in the business, they had
to be dependent upon Ohio and New
York for all the machinery used in che
factory business but, as the business has
increased, enterprising mechanics have
established manufactures, where every
kind OF machinery is made and sold, shat
is required, and far superior to any, pur-
chased in New York and Ohio. Messrs.
N. & II. c, Rogers, of Elgin, have .estab-
lished mandatory, where they are ma
king and supplying factories in the
Northwest with all kinds ofapparatus e.
uuired in the manufacture of cheese.
Having visited nearly every factory in the
state, I found that their name was upon
most Of the cheese watts and articles used.
goa CHEESE BOX FACTORY
In the transportation of cheese to mar
ket, boxes are necessary for its safety.
Formerly, they had to send to New York
State for boxes, bu; they can now be
found at home, at lower price and SUI
perior article.
q. G. Simmons & Co., of this city, have
purchased the old Pier Co.'s buildings, at
the mouth of the harbor, and erected 9th
err buildings, and are now making 1000
boxes per day. Their factory is so by 40
feet. with an engine room and model
engine of 25-horse power. They have
put in all kinds of machinery Of the Ia
test patterns and inventions, and boxes
are constantly rolling from the factory to
the warehouse. The warehouse is 100 by
60 feet, 3 stories high, and capable of
storing 2oo,000 boxes. Their Timber is
brought ffom Michigan, and is the best
that can be purchased. They employ 30
men, and are furnishing boxes throughout
the Northwest at low prices
The Northwestern railroad, and others
in Wisconsin, are reaping rich harvest
from the transportation of butter and
cheese to market. The officers of the diff
ferent roads are doing all they can to ben
eft the dairymen, in lowering the price
Of freights. They are finding out that
butter and cheese-making will be the lead
ing industrial interest of the Northwest.
Although wheat has taken the lead for
years, now dairying leads the raising of
grain, and pays the best freight.
ataEa ILLINOIS a 1Aa h14
In this state there are 80, $50 COWS at
tached to cheese factoriesand, at their val
ne, $50, the capital invested is $1,679,000,
and amount of cheese made at the aver
age, ATS pounds, amounts to 1857, 200
pounds, and, at ID cents per pounds, 50,
233,070. Illinois is the banner state in
the Northwest. There are q few facto-
ries now in operation in Minnesota, also
in Iowa, Indiana and Michigan-and
they will soon be as numerous as in this
state and Illinois. In Monroe, M1nneso-
ia, there is factory where nothing but
Limburg cheese is made, and the milk Of
$50 cows is used. In Lake Co., Illinois, |
there is factory where the celebratedj
Sweitzer cheese is made. The. magni-
tude of the dairying business has not
been appreciated, nor the large amount
of butter and cheese made and the
amount of money received for the same,
even by those in the business 1t is not
more than ten years since twas introdu-
ced into this state, and it will from this
time increase in the same ratio it has
done. Never, perhaps, in the history of
the world, has any business increased to
such magnitude in SO brief period as has
that of dairying in this country. r.
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