Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-04-07

I i hen IL IS no uOuOt ttSt th'' '"'
more condensed The form in which We
can market our farm products the better
ii pays. An old saying is that a success
full farmer. will market his crops on lour
legs, meaning that he will sell ii in the
form OF live stock which have been used
rs machines TO concentrate the raw pro
duets, out if we market them in the form
of cheese or butter we have I. ached q
step higher and are still nearer success.
AS to competition. Some wilt say we
cannot compete with tho middle and
western States in the production oil
cheese. Why not? We have several
advantages. In the first place land Is
not so valuable here rs in the cheese pro-
ducing sections further west. Stock IS
cheaper here; help can be obtained nj
less rates, and certainly our prices are
TAR in advance. That We can produce rs
good quality of cheese has certainly been
demonstrated beyond a doubt. Waldo
Co. factory cheese placed side by sido
with Western in our retail stores has been
preferred by consumers in nine cases out
of ten. Niuety.liVe per cent. OF our lac
tory cheese have proved 10 be first quail
ty, and this too in our inexpericnce.
Cheese making by the factory system
is not an injury 10 the general dairy in
terest in the State; it is just otherwise.
The market Tor butter and cheese will be
better. Said one of the leading dairy
men in my town al our dairymen's meet
ing;-"I believe in cheese factories
though cannot furnish milk for them.
But thew make better market Tor but
ter. So il is. Oh course dairymen liv'
ing near Giles and large villages which
Give them a sure market Tor milk at from
six TO eight cents per quart and butter
from thirty. six to forty i've cents per 10.
cannot afford 10 support cheese factories I;
but tue great mass of our farmers are
not thus luckily situated. and 1t is fol
them that cheese factories are especially
desirable.
Oae word as TO the social bearing oil
The question. il is almost impossible to
procure suitable female help on the farm,
and farmers wives are proverbialiy an
over. worked class. To them cheese
T. cory consuming the milk from the farm
i, a perfect god send as it relieves them
the drudgery OF the dairy in hot summer
months and especially duIing the hay ing
season when household duties weigh
mos, heavily upon delicate shoulders.
Then there is the transportation qnes'
lion, that problem which our Western
friends are graphing with so persistent
IN and we hope successfully. Take my
section Of the State rs al example. Tie
cost oil hauling OF transporting a ton Ct
farm products omarkol at Belfast, from
of The towns in Waldo Co., where cheese
factories arc organized. is about two dol
lars. Thus i. costs $, 10 market ton
OF pressed hay, which is one OF our pin
cipal market products, and =. to market
a ton OF cheese. In one case the value
Of the product is SIG; in the other
$500. In other words il costs $40 TO
market $500 worth OF hay aad only 8 to
marke. $500 worth of cheese. This IS An
item no, to be overlooked. and when we
take into consideration tho fact that
cheese factories can just as well be oper-
atcd in Localities 50 far from market that
hay aud course products are Of small
marketable value on account OF the cost
OF transportation. the subject becomes
of the greatest Importance.
Do not undeIslan me IS saying that
in associated dairying our farmers have
found short Gu. TO prosperity. n pan
acca Tor la,mins ills, nor that by onSag-
ing in it they viii become suddenly rich.
but as . means of reuovaliug our old
and WORKOUT farms; rs help TO care
worn ovcrNorheL farmers wives; as a
safe and fair paying Investment, and A.
a step in the direction OF agricultural
progress. think il would be well for
every farming community in the State
layoraJly situated. to give the subject
careful consideration.