The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-27
CHEESE MANUFACTURE.

While the business men of the
land are devoting themselves to the
study of railroad building and ma
chine-shops establishments for the
upbuilding of the country in gener-
al, let us who are not thus engaged
step out of the main channel and
take look at a kind of business
that seems to us to be entirely prac-
ticable, and worthy of trial in Lyon
county. We refer to cheese
making on a scale extensive enough
to make it success. We do not
mean by this to infer that the past
and present efforts in this direction
have been or are a failure in this
county. On the contrary it is well
known to many of our citizens
that the history of cheese making
during the five years that it has
been carried on at Americas, affords
encouragement for tho further de-
velopment of the business. The
experience of those who have been
thus engaged in Americas, however,
as stated to us from time to time
during the last five years, proves
that to make the manufacture of
cheese really safe and profitable
there must be supply sufficient to
answer the demands of the west
ern trade. TO illustrate, we may
state that we are informed by an
agent who took q car load of
Americas cheese TO Denver last
season, that the wholesale dealers
in that city ordered more
cheese each month than any
factory in Kansas could produce.
Consequently, they said that
they did not dare depend upon
the Kansas factories, butsent their
large orders to Chicago and st.
Louis, where they could be sure
that they would be promptly filled.
If Lyon county could guarantee the
filling of orders for 500 boxes and
upward at a time, of good cheese,
she could secure the cheese trade of
the west to the extent of her capac-
ity to supply it. We have a plan
for the accomplishment of this end
to which we wish to direct the at
tention of our business men and
farmers. 1t is for company to es-
tablish, in conjunction with the
Americas and Hartford factories,
q factory at Emporia, one at Neosho
Rapids, another at Plymouth. Let
these all be run by one company,
under the direction of experienced
superintendents, and then the COM
pany will be prepared to open up
a profitable trade throughout Col
orado, New Mexico and Texas.
Five hundred Cows is as great a
number as can be successfully han
died by one factory. With five or
six factories in Lyon county con-
Stunning the milk of $500 cows, 4
daily disbursement of at least $500
will be the result, or 1000 month,
which will be just that amount OF
money made an the county. The
grass is here, and the cows are also
here, and all that is wanted is for
some gentleman or company of gen.
tlemen, possessed of some bust
ness qualification, and in comma nd
of capital of $4,000 to $4,000, to
take hold and work up a good, safe,
paying business, that will be of
more benefit TO the comfy than any
other one kind of manufacture that
could be established within her
borders. A much larger business
than we have here outlined might
with perfect safety be carried on
but it would soon mature if once it
were started. The farmers OF Lyon
county could themselves work this
up, if they were so disposed, and
they can readily see the importance
of the enterprise.
Few of our people, perhaps,
realize the magnitude OF the
cheese trade of tue United States at
the presant time, New York COM
mercial writers estimate the Yalue
of cheese annually exported from
the United States TO very nearly
equal that of wheat, and that the an
nual produce OF cheese is equal in
value to that of all the Wi4ea. pro-
duoed in the United States. Amer
lean cheese hes alone gained the
reputation of being superior to
English dairy cheese.
Kansas esp manufacture good
cheese. II requires experienced
cheeSe-makers, and careful manage
ment. Very little genuine New
York cheese ever gets west of Chica-
go at the present day. Go into al
most any town in Kansas, and you
will to-day end cheese that was
made at Elgin, ILL, and sold for
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