Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-28
Late Markets.


ABOUT g, 500 boxes were sold at o'clock.
and 1900 sent on commission. Sales
were made at 114@t24c., and several of
the best factories refused 125c. One ia
Vorite factory was reported to have
sold at 1870. Factorymen generally
feel that 10 cents is low enough for fine
| cheese.
Considerable stress is put on the accu-
mutation of stock in the country. There
IS undoubtedly some, but we cannot learn
that it is greater than it was last year.
Again, it is said the make is larger be-
cause of the increased area. 1t is true
the area is increased every year, but not
much more this than in former years,
and not so much as it was in 1871. It is
impossible to very much increase the
make of cheese in any one year, without
interfering with the butter crop and less
ening that so as to materially affect
| prices, for the reason that the number of
| COWS cannot be very much increased in
single year. We have no evidence in
the butter market that the COWS of the
|
diverted from butter to cheese-making.
There is another point to be considered
which is liable to deceive. The tenden-
cy is all the while to smaller cheeses.
The average in years past has been abont
go pounds. But every new factory and
every factory that undergoes renovation
is putting in smaller hoops. We doubt
very much if the average now, through
out this country, is over IS pounds. Ow-
ing to the cutting down of the hoops, we
are seeming to make more weight of
cheese than we really are, because we
are making more in number. We do not
always stop to consider that they are
smaller.
The receipts at New York, for the
week ending Saturday last, were 81, 455
boxes, and the exports were 81, 891 box
es. The cable was els. Gold closed at
lis, and the highest quotation for cheese
was 134c For the corresponding week
last year, the receipts were 40, 73S boxes
and the exports were 66, 178 boxes. The
cable was Gls Gold closed at 113, and
the highest quotation for cheese was
143c.
Speaking of the incre use of cheese fac
tories in the western States, the New
York Bulletin says:
LAS to the extension of the manufac-
ture of cheese in the western States since
1870, we give the following figures, as
, obtained from local Boards of Trade, and
estimates of good authorities in the alb
sence of these reports, as no statistics
have been brought down to the present
time. In northern Illinois, the increase
has been from As to 300 in operation at
present. In Wisconsin from 81 to 200
on the opening of the season, with 70
| more in process of construction. Indiana
| had 2, and is now estimated at 90 fac
, | tories Michigan has not increased 80
| | rapidly, owing to the fact that more at
tenti0n has been given to butter manu-
| facture. In 1870 she had % factories,
| and is now estimated at about IS factor
les. Iowa has given more attention this
= season to this interest than before. In
2 1870 she had only, but she is now varl-
4 | Ously estimated at p to 30 factories.
. | Minnesota had only four, and is not es-
i. timated but doubtless has increased as
much as Iowa.
The receipts in Boston for the past
/ week have been :, 1887 boxes and . tons.
: The cheese market has ruled quiet, with
sales of choice factory at 12t@l33c per
G h., including Western, New York and
4. Vermont, and second quality at 1t@12c
: A few fancy lots of factory sold at lac,
but 1876 is the highest price we can
quote for most of the cheese arriving
= the past two weeks. The markets a:
f Little Falls and Utica were decidedly
: tame this week, and have eased off from
e the extreme rates ruling two weeks ago.
g BUTTER.
AT st. Adams, on Tuesday, the mar
s ket was fairly active, and prices ruled
: about the same as last week. Common
to fair, 20@25c; medium to good, 25@
: Csc choice, 29c; selected, SOC.
The Richmond market, Monday, was
about the same as last week. One hun
dred and fifty tubs sold at 25@27c for
good and choice at Csc.
At Utica there is no change in quota
tions. Fancy brings in New York 800
Soc. per pound, and fine State 3O@32c
= Welsh tubs are quoted at $1,000. West
ern has thus far come in and supplied, to
great extent, and at lower price, the
place of State butter. 1t is improved
!, this year, both in quality and style OF
i package. This Improvement is attribut
i ed to the introduction of patent butter
. workers. One of them, according tc
e the New York Bulletin, "presses the
! butter and then rolls it to make it of Uni
" form color and consistency, taking it as
it comes into market sailed" The Other
Expresses it through sieve until hare
and soft stock is perfectly mixed, when
. it is sailed with pure Ashton salt and
= packed. This process has the advantage,
= which the other is capable of, of tax
Il ING the butter from the farmers door
} weekly. fresh churned and unsalted, IL
2 covered wagons, which are provided
u with three tanks for making three grade:
q of butter as to color and quality" The
Ie drawbacks to this treatment, we are told
'sare too much handling, which, though
it may not break the grain or globules Of
the butter, does take away much OF 1T
ID life and the practice of coloring at Ger
a tain seasons, which, though practiced by
d d dairymen, is detriment to any butter.
1t The Bulletin adds
ot .sAs to the extent to which these pro
a. cesses have been introduced in the west
Or ern States, and the result of the opera
N tions with them, we are informed tina
in over 100 factories on the Dake plan ar
ut already running, and twice or thre
st times that number of rights sold, but nc
~ yet in operation. as the introduction Q
ID the plan began only last spring OF tn
Sc johnson method, which has been IN op
e. Grafton longer, there have been NOR
~ | .,.aol,;.,nc and more RIGHTS sold. but the