The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

of our western cities Dealers were aarau
to touch it for fear it would spoil on
their haeds. The retail demand was
small and the price was very low, the
best brands being only worth from So
to64 cents per pound. In the year 1859
only about 100000 pounds were
shipped to England in 1881, 23,000,0 900
pounds; from January 2 to December 81,
1859, -927,701 boxes,or little over $4,000,
600 pounds. Cheese in Herkimer County
n. Y, In 1851 was sold as low as a cents
per pound for good qualities, and only
ranged from the year 1850 to 1862 from
to 10 cents per pound tor prime. When
the price advanced to 10c, 12c, and 14c,
per pound, dairymen increased their
stock of cows; others embarked in the
profitable business of cheese making.
Many wise and far-seelng Gnanciers
done; there would be q reaction in year
OF two, the market would get overssocked
and values would recede below old prices.
In the mean time darles increased in size
and numbers, the manufacture of cheese
extended Beyond the borders of Herkimey
County and spread all over New York,
New England, and to the enterprising
West. The factory system of associated
diaries was inaugurated, which gave the
enterprise q tremendous impetus, and
fairly astonished the wise prophets whe
stood from under, expecting to see the
tremendous crash so long looked for. The
make increased in the United States
from 100000 in 1850, to 240,OO0,0O0 in
1860.
Notwithstanding this increase in the
manufacture of cheese, prices have steadi.
~ advanced to the present time. l think
/ am safe in saying that at no time du-
ring the history of cheese-making, cheese
has brought as much in gold per pound
as it does at this time. It is worth more
in gold to day than at any time during
the high prices Of war times. The reason
Of this Is the demand has increased faster
than the increase Of manufacture. While
in 1855 to go, with prices from to 8
cents per pound, there was little demand
for the article; but few retail stores
would keep it in warm weather, as their
losses were greater than their profits; and
many were afraid to buy whole cheese
at time for fear it would spoil on their
hands. AT this time you can hardly en-
ter "a grocery store in the whole western
coutry but you will find cheese on their
counters, and it is almost as much sta
pie with with them as tea, sugar, or coffee
The demand is now increasing more rap
idly than at any former period It is
found in almost every family, and no ia
BILE is we'll set for the family repast with
out the plate Of cheese. We are follow
ing our English neighbors in getting to
be cheese eating community. The rail
roads to the Pacific are opening exten i've
markets for it. The late Confederate
States are coming to their sences. Van
kee enterprise is extending over her ter
ritory, and as the high degree Of tenn
perature precludes the use of butter in a
measure, they will soon consume large
quantities of our cheese. In 1858 it was
estimated the demand for cheese exceeded
the supply about 72,000,00O pounds.
The consequence was in the spring of
1869 cheese became very high, which had
the effect to check consumption, the
amount of its deficit. In 1869 the season
was favorable. The yield of butter and
cheese per cow was large. The con-
sequence was the make of cheese was
large yet the demand is fully equal to
the supply, and dairy factorymen have
obtained full prices, with increased val
ues, since warm weather up to the present
time. The price of cheese at this time
is higher than any other agricultural pro-
duct, according to its cost. The milk that
would be required to make one pound of
butter would make from 21a to 3 pounds
Of hoaco of ho 0C h. =
but little higher at retail than the price
of the latter. There was hardly time,
from 1850 to 1860. but what barrel of
flour was worth as much, or more than
one hundred weight of cheese At the
present time you can buy over three bar
rels of prime -four for 100 pounds of
prime factory cheese. During the former
time, it would take about two pounds of
cheese to buy one yard of calico. Now
it takes nearly two yards of calico to buy
one pound of cheese. Since $780, the IN
crease of the manufacture of cheese has
probably been so per cent more than the
increase in the population, while, at the
same time, it has increased nearly 900
per cent in price, other articles of agri-
culture OF manufacture remaining nearly
suggests itself, does the intrinsic value Of
cheese warrant these especial favors. or
the prices paid for it as compared with
the prices of other kinds Of food? In an
swer; am happy to state that science
has come to our aid and Mechanically
demon >trated beyond doubt the exact
value of the various kinds of food In
the selection of food it is eminently
natural and proper to choose those kinds
that please the taste and best supply the
demands of nature. And as the whole
animal kingdom are not always proper
judges what kinds are best adapted to
Their wants, their stomachs, in state of
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