Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-28

an Essay read before the ITaldo Count,
Farmers association, at Unity, Nor
20h, By the Secretary J. ". Lang.
It's OHIGIN-In 1851 Jesse Williams
farmer living near Rome, New York
| an experienced and skillful cheese ma
ker, first inauguratedt the system of associa.
ted dairying. At that time the bulk ol
| cheese made was poor. Mr.. Williams
dairy had high reputation, and its pro-
ducts were eagerly sought after by the
dealers. His son purchased farm and
settled near him, and entered the dairy
| business. Not being practical or skill.
full cheese maker his father proposed that
the son deliver the milk from his farm
daily at the fathers milk house, and there
the milk of both herd could be worked up
about as cheap as of one farm from this
germ of thought sprang up the idea Of unit
ing the milk OF the herdsot a neighborhood,
and manufacturing it at one place. Build
| ings were erected and apparatus procured,
which proving success, gave birth to the
| system of associated dairying
There are now in active operation in
| the United States l245 cheese and butter
| factories, and thirty five in the Dominion
OF Canada. New York has GAG; Ohio,
1903 Illinois, 4G; Kentucky, 3 Mnneso-
ia, 4 Wisconsin, 81 Massachusetts, &c
Vermont, 32 Michigan, %; Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas and
Connecticut, each have one; Maine, 3;
Pennsylvania. IA; Iowa., Indiana, 9;
Canada, 81. Total in the United States
and Canada, 1880
ADvANTAGEs.-The advantages claimed
for the system of associated dairying are,
superior quality, uniformity, saving by
buying supplies needed, such as salt, bend
or boxes, onnatto, and selling at better
figures by reason of better quality and
larger quantity; relieving the farmer and
his family of the details and labor of max
ing and care of the cheese.
OBJECTIONS urged against the system
are, difficulty Of detecting adulterated
ability of sour milk, difference in quality
of milk arising from the manner in which
the cows are managed and fed, and the
carriage of the whey.
We have summarily enumerated the
advantages and objections. Devices arc
now in use which enable the watchful super
intendent to detect adulterated or watered
milk and the penalty for this is exclusion
from the association. Exclusion must also
be applied to those who do not properly
cleans their cans or take sufficient precau-
tion against souring of their milk. Also
for not observing due cleanliness in all
other details regarding handling and care
OF milk, or the observance of rules and
regulations of the association.
INDUCEMENTS To DAIRYING.-Firs
profitableness will it pay to engage in it ?
q IL
and we give attention accordingly. Win
dairying pay :? certainly; else why do we
keep COWS? and if it Will pay as now con-
Quoted. as many private dairymen will
tell you it does. certainly 1t will pay better
when we cheaper the cost of production
of cheese or butter from the milk, by as
sociatcd effort, 10y bonding together for
mutual interests, and thereby work adyan-
tageously, like the strong team pulling
together, and not rs now each one sepa-
rately and alone. Does it pay in other
States? Let us see. We will first 90 to
Ohio; State very much resembling
Maine-a rolling surface well watered,
sharp winters, a grass growing State, and
peopled by the descendants of the same
old puritan stock.
From the address of Mr.. c. w. Horr
Of Wellington, before the Ohio State
Board of Agriculture in January, 1870,
learn that, The average amount of an
nual receipts for the past four years has
been little more that fifty dollars per
COW. A farm of one hundred acres, al
lowing twenty-five acres for wood, orch
ard and garden, with yards, buildings and
roadways, will keep handsomely eighteen
COWS and the receipts from these would
be by the average 5000. Besides this the
farm would produce garden vegetables,
fruit, milk, butter, meat and wood enough
for family consumption. One man could
do all the work needed, except in the hay
harvest and milking the latter can usually
be done with the assistance OF some men,
Der of the family. The average receipts
of some of our best dairies during the
past four years has been full seventy dol
lars per COW, this would give Us, as the
yearly receipt from eighteen cows, Sl2G0."
Gentlemen, what they can do in Ohio we
can do in Maine. Our markets are Supe-
rior; our grazing is as good or better. our
cows as good, our facilities are as great,
and many things are in our favor. own
no State superior to Native Maine in dairy
capabilities, when treated rightly no, not
even the much vaunted ker kiner and
Orange counties of New York
But Mr.. Horr refers us to individual in
stances of still greater profit than those
quoted. which you will remember are but
averages. Mr.. W. W. Wells Of Hunting
ten, Lorain Co., has 33 cows. In 1868
bis profits 81, 100, or S64 per COW; in 1869
a little over 81, 800, or $40 per COW. MIR.
Spencer of Lewis Township received ST.
$50 from ii cows in 1869, or SO per
COW.
Now, gentlemen, if you have equalled
this in potato raising, hay selling, or in
skinning your farms, show your papers.
But Mr.. Hor shows the prosperity of
Ohio darymen in another way. The
farmers of Huntingdon township, which
is the leading dairy township of our yicin-
ity. pay larger income tax than is paid
by the farmers of any other three town
ships in our county Our Assistant Asses
sor informed me- just before left home,
that nine-tenths of the income tax collec-
ted in his district was paid by dairy
men, while they do not occupy one halt
of the township. Now their neighbors
engaged in mixed farming are just as in
telligent as they are this proves, either
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