Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-28
ExIENslON OF BUTTER DAIRIEF

EX1ENSAON DE BUT1Ek DAlB1Es.
There have bes i two recent inventions in
working over s.ore butter, and common
butter from small diaries, which hay9 made
improvements equal to from three to six
dollars gain on every 100 pounds of this ar
ticle. Such an advance in the pr.ce Of
country butter has very naturally adde d
largely 10 its production. The butter made
in small parcels, at different times, on diff
fsrent farms, and by many diff rent house
keepers, is uuayoidably not alike in color,
taste or quality, as found at country stores.
Such defective butter is now work
ed through fine sleeves, all specks
taken out, and Otherwise mani
uplAted to sweesea it, and remove inn
purities, by 8 patent process which attains
important results. In treating oftbis sub
jet the New York Bulletin has the follow
ing sensibls remarks:
"As an indication of what may be done
in the latter in the West, we know of one
Michigan creamery that has sold in this
market all summer at the full price of Orange
county pals, and the extension of thi, sy.-
tenn, VIII CD unfortunately is not extending
much in the West, ,canuot fail Of success,
and is Set another step in the progress we
have been advocating, which is destined to
obliterate much, if not all, of the difference
which has hitherto been so enormous and
out of all reason, between State and West
ern butter. The vexed question Of trans
por, aticn, now aeitatiDg the West, has d.
ect bearing upon the dairy il terests Of that
section. There is no limit to its extension
upon the chesp grazing lards of the West
ern States and Territories, and there is
nothing into which the farmer can turn the
products of his land that is so profitable as
this, properly conducted, and into which the
value can be reduced to so small COM
psss. Thus, while freights may eat up
corn, wheat and pork, they cannot butter
and cheese, which are worth many times
the former per pound. No fears OF over
production need g entertained, for, IN adj
dition to the increase of foreign consump'
ton ard decrease of 70: eign production, the
increase of our home consumption is great
er than our increase of production OF but
ter, by far, if not of cheese. And there is
no chsnce of its abatement; for with the
increase of our native population our i'm
migra ion is enormous and steadily tncress-
ing, and while it may be said, truly, that 1t
is becoming more and more agricultural in
its pursuits, and that it is adding as much
to our food producing as to our food con-
Stunning population, this fact must bs borne
in mind, that all are consumers without be.
ing producers for one year, and that it g
two years before the immigrant farmers
produce any surplus over their own con-
sumption. This fact is already di;cernable
in our farmer Western States who are send
ing less butter to the East and mere to the
West every year. Beyond Chicago the
bulk of the surplus goes Westward, while
Chicago and st. Louis draw the bulk cf
their supply for consumption from the
Eastward
The mining interest of the West, from
thu northern boands of Dacota to the south
ern limit of Arizona, (1S degrees of lati'
tude,) viii soon form home market for
Provisions CT great value.