The Portland daily press., 1874-07-13
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING. JULY 1s. 1874.
Farm and Garden.
CHEESE---FOR EXPORT.


Many OF our citizens whose memory reach
es back thirty or forty years, well recollect
the long trains of sleighs laden with farm and
dairy products, almost invariably sarmounted
by frozen hogs, rampant, recumbent, and in
all sorts of grotesque attitudes; which used
to wind through the Notch to this city, from
northern New Hampshire and from Yer
mont. To them il will be awakening a pIeas-
ant recollection to recall the familiar sight of
the long drawn out line of the hale and
hearty mountaineers of Coos and the Green
Mountains, frequently hundred strong; as
singing of psalms they skirted the ice bound
Ssco, and plowed through the snowy plains
OF Conway, Fryeburg aud Standish to Port
land.
1t was not difficult to imagine that the air
was filled with the sweet odors of the pas
lures Of Verd-mont, and the very breath of
the milky mothers, as these travelling mer-
! chants displayed to their customers along the
route the golden butter, and the fragrant
cheese, iuroecnt of annatto and all modern
deceits, and harmless even to the dainty di-
| gestion of an infant.
Most of cur shops and families depended
entirely upon this source for their winter sup
| ply; and it is safe to say, that the products of
these old dairies have seldom been surpassed
| by our present factories.
so much by way of preface to the assertion
that the time has come, when all these valu-
| aIla oF
should again find their natural market or
outlet, in Portland. With the completion of
the Portland and Ogdensburg r. r. in 1875,
which traverses this dairy region; new faciIi-
ties will be offered for the transportation of
| its products, and the enterprise of merchants
and shippers, should present sufficient oppor-
tunitles to secure their inevitable attraction
| fitherward. Why should rot all this class of
merchandise that seeks a market, find il in
Portland, not merely for home consumption,
but for export as well2 Claiming the con-
| troll of our own state as the result of a nattl-
raj law, we believe that by virtue of higher
necessity the G. I. and p. G. o. r. RS, will
not only restore this old trade of Northern
New Hampshire and Vermont to us, but also
add that of Canada. Reference to the ship
ments to England by our own winter line of
steamers, of the articles of butter and cheese,
will establish the conviction that some of
these opinions are already accomplished
facts.
The next year will probably see one hun
dred cheese factories in this state; and they
rpnfinlyipO in ba INF,
somewhere or other their manufactures must
be sold. Shall we have hand in the trans
action?
From the following extract, we learn that
the Canadian cheese is coming into deserved
notice abroad; the Berlin (Canada) Tele-
graph says:
From Scotch papers of recent date, we are
pleased to learn that Canadian cheese is not
only attracting some attention. but beginning
to occupy high position in the markets of
Great Britain. This was particularly notice
able at tie great annual cheese tair held late
ly in the west of Scotland. The number of
entries was unusually large, upward of 1900
of the most famous diaries of Scotland and
England being represented. The judges were
selected from the most experienced cheese
factors of the Kingdom Thus the specl-
side of the very finest cheese produced in the
world, and we've tested by those who are most
capable OF forming an opinion as to their
merits. 1t is interesting, therefore, to notice
the remarks OF Mr. Copeman, OF the firm of
Yeats, Acocks &c Copeman, of London, who,
with the concurrence of the other judges, ex
pressed himself as follows: '.The general
quality of the cheese shown was as good as
he ever saw. AS stranger to the district,
COMING here nuifQ nnnrpparpd n Sncb
fine cheese, he thought there was the nucleus
of this becoming the finest cheese-produciug
district in the United Kingdom, because il
was well known that the making of cheese in
a number OF daires in Somersetshire was de-
ereasing every year. There was some Cana
dian cheese as finely favored as any shown"
As we have already said, the other judges
concurred in this opinion. 1t must be ex-
tremely gratifying to cheese manufacturers
in this country to learn that in the pro1uc-
tion OF an article of such extensive domestic
use they can not only compete with their
nelghbOrs across the line, but also with the
most famous makers of Britain, whose repu-
tation was worldwide before Canadian MAX
ers had turned their attention to this branch
OF agricultural industry.
With equal opportunities, the cheese of
Maine will receive similar commendation,
and the possibilities are, that it may take
even higher rank. Returns from different
states show, that on the average, ten pounds
OF milk are taken to make one pound of
cheese; while in our own State, only 0 CLIO
pounds are required; and the proper tests
may show, that when manufactured, it will
maintain a corresponding ratio of value. so
far as quality, and keeping properties are con-
cerned.
Earnestly desiring that our manufacturers
may be encouraged to aim at higher stand
ard of excellence; and that the attention of
distant producers may be directed to the I'M
rivalled facilities of our market; and that the
faith of our business men in our capabilities
may be tested; we venture to propose, that
the wholesale grocers, or the Board of Trade,
or some organization in the city, offer large
premiums for the best cheese made in Maine,
N. H., vt. and Canada, to be exhibited here
the present season.
As no exhibition purely agricultural, may
seasonably occur; should the above PROPOSE
ton meet with favor, no doubt some con-
venient arrangement could be made, in con-
nection with the proposed exhibition OF the
Pathological Society.
COST OF SUPERPHOsPHATEs.
The researches of Prof Slorer show that
the American-made superphosphates hither
to available to New England farmers are of
too high cost and too little value to be bought
and used to advantage, and that it is possible
to make and sell better article at lower
prlce, still leaving a fair profit to the maker
or importer; and the correspondence elected
by his publications has also BROUGHT TO sht
facts confirmatory # his conclusions, and en-
couraging to the many who are compelled to
use artificial manures. For instance, a deal
er in superphosphates writes from New York
to Professor Storer, April IL, that he will sell
to such as wish to buy in lots of not less than
ten tons, a superphosphate yielding 10 per
cent snluhle nhoS nlnrc acid. at $2l ner ton