Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-28
NO. 2s4.

ry OF the State Agricultural Society, DR.. j.
w. Hoyt, an excellent authority, says in
his report for 1869, 1.-THE dairy business
had remarkable development during the
past year in consequence of the great in
lerest awakened in the matter Of estab-
fishing factories for the manufacture of
cheese. There are nearly so factories at
work in this State, though the system has
been but recently introduced. The large
est,-the Rosendale factory-uses the
milk of 600 cows. In view of the many
advantages attaching to the factory system
it is rather surprising that it should not
have been introduced long ago.
Not having access to the figures l can
not tell whether our Wisconsin friends
find associated dairying as profitable as
our Ohio ones have, but have no reason
to doubt that they do.
In New York dairying pays the best OF
any branch of farming there pursued, and
n. T. is the great dairy State of the Union.
At the present time there are over one
thousand associated dairies in operation
there. Here it originated and has taken
deepest root, and here it will flourish and
prove profitable so long as this nation re-
mains what it is.
In Massachusetts, the returns for 1871
pound on cheese manufactured. The
cost Of making is 2 cts. there against our
1-2 cts. here, and every one knows Mas
sachusetts is Tar behind Maine as u graz
ing state. 1t takes 10 lbs of milk there to
make one of cured cheese. The cost of
theirfactories is from S25OO to $4,000. Com
pare our advantages with these figures.
In Vermont associated dairying pays go
that they have found it profitable to estab-
lish nearly 40 factories. Private dairying
has been carried to high excellence in
both n. Y. and Vermont, but statistics tell
US that associated dairying is taking its
place.
OTHER INDUCEMENTs.-Nor is the proii-
ableness of the products of the milk the
only inducement this branch of husbandry
holds to us. We are in great want of
manure to build up and restore our farms
that have been robbed too long OF their
producing, vital energy. By keeping
cows we shall consume all our bulky crops
on the farm, together with our grain, and
shall annually behold the manure heap
increase in size, and in value. We shall
then not be obliged to sell our hay and
potatoes, our grain and our stock, to pay
taxes, buy groceries and send out West to
mill, for our dairy products will furnish
handy supplies of the "needful" and our
manure heaps enable US to raise our bread
bygrowing wheat. Ii we can grow good
crops of wheat, hay will be good on that
ground in succeeding years. The tenden
cy will be upward and onward, not retro
grade.
We want more cows and sheep-less OF
horses and dogs we want more manure,
and less hay and potatoes sold off; we
want vegetable products consumed on the
farm-an malized-transformed in part
into butter, cheese, wool, meat and milk,
before they leave us to return no more.
Then, and not till then. shall we tread the
path to prosperity, and be no longer dis
cussing the question "Does Farming Pay?''
LoCATIoN.-The location of an associat-
ed dairy should be as central as possible,
and have constant, copious supply of
pure cold water. Five miles is the extent
that milk can be profitably collected from
This gives section of country ten miles in
diameter from which to draw supplies of
milk. Two hundred cows is the least that
has been found profitable, while from three
to five hundred is about the right number.
In some instances the milk Of fifty, seven
ty.fve and one hundred cows is worked
up with good profit. but these small dairies
pay only when local conditions are very
favorable. AS Maine cheese sells for
higher prices then western, so smaller
dairies will pay better here than there.
1t is seldom necessary to 60 over three
miles to get the milk of from two to three
hundred cows. The factory should be To-
Gated where no scents or filth will, or can
effect its products, for milk OF all sub
stances is the most sensitive to these.
Cleanliness is next to Goodness in dairy
ing, if anywhere.
How TO DO 1--WE believe that asso.
ciated dairying is to work a revolution for
good in the farming interests OF Maine
and particularly in this county. We also
believe it is our duty, interest and privi-
lege to encourage its introduction. We
believe tha. pecuniarily and socially we
shall he greatly benefited by its agency.
The only way to embark in associated
dairying for US is the stock plan; each
putting in capital in proportion to the cows
furnished, or as means admit.
How IT PAYS IN MAINE.-We have three
factories for cheese making now estab-
lished-one ut Strong, one at Dixtield, and
one at Glenburn. The Strong factory paid
s per cent. upon its stock. Hay fed to
cows paid Is dollars per ton. Cheese sells
IOT Id CcutS pei III. builuIHS @CAoo, tuIcc
stories-cost of building and water
S969,00. Cost Of land 800. Apparatus
S60S.0O. Total = S,G67 90 Help employed.
one man - per day, one man two hour,
per day 80 cents, one woman five hours
per day, fifty cents. Total for help So
per day Number of patrons sixty. Milk
worth three and one third cents per quart
The Dixfield factory cost 1850 dollars,
has had milk of l75 cows-has capacity
for three hundred. Cheese sells for IA cts.
per h.. milk worth cts. per quart. Have
made 500 cheeses this year, weighing from
80 to 80 pounds each.
The Glenburn factory cost 1880, 25x
40, three stories high. Cheese sells for IA
cts, milk worth three cents per quart.
Have made this year 10000 pounds OF
cheese, worth S4,3l2.
Gilbert Pratt of the Maine Board OF Ag-
riculture, and excellent authority, says:
"No one has stronger faith in associated
dairying in Maine than myself, and have
ever endeavoSed to encourage it on all
proper occasions. There is no reason why
Maine should not make not only butter and
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