Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
The Production OF Bu,,er.

AT the late convention of dairymen
and dealers at indianapolis more than
NIFTY essays were sent in to compete for
the premiums offered by Mr.. ID. w
Dake. The Buffalo Courier savs that
Mr.. y. A. Willard will probably be the
successful competitor. His essay was
publicly read, and in it, according TO
the Courier, he estimated the present
annual production of butter In the
Uuited States at less than 700 900 600
pounds. In 1850 it was a little over
3l3,0OO,000 pounds. len wears later il
had reached nearly 100000, 600 pounds
the annual increase being about 20 600
600 pounds. In 1850, if our pupulation
increases at the same ratio us during
the last decade, we.shall need 900 900
GOO pounds to supply the demand i'm
The United States alone. He smoke of
our people as being excessive butter
eaters, and then pointed out that there
Is no product which offers better re.
Enumeration for extra care in its pruduc.
ton. In New York and olher eastern
cities the best butter is sometimes sold
as high as dollar a pound and upward.
suppose we put the whole, good and
pad, at an average of fifteen cents ca
pound, the value of the present annual
prouuct would amount To SlO5, 900, 900.
Az twenty cents 1t would be Sl40, 0O0,-
eoO, or 300, OOO,OOO gain by All Impru> t.
ment OF five cents on the pound. AT
twenty-five cents the product would Toe
worth Sl75, 100000; at thirty cents
S2l0, 900, 600 at forty cents, $3.50 900 900.
and at fifty cents, $3.50 900 600. He
asked, is this point not attainable ?
And felt certain that the assumption is
within the bounds of probabilities. and
II correct the gain to the butter ieterest
alone would be 245 ,0O0,O 900. ANY i'm
proVement, then, in butter manufac- |
lure, must be public benefaction.
The only class that would suffer bv |
IL wonld be the medical practitioners |
who would be called on to treat few |
cases OF dyspepsia, but would share |
with the rest of the community in the |
general advantage of more Wholesome |
diet.n
Mr.. Wizards essay contained MANY |
interesting aud valuable remarks of n
practical character, showing how self
Interest itself demands the increase of |
great care and humanity towards our
domestic animals. Among other things
he said:
" Nothing has been more clearly
settled in dairy practice than this, that
1t Is an utter impOssibility to make
good milk from bad water. And vet
hundreds of dairymen pay no atten-
ton to the matter There is a law in
some States against watering milk, but
there is no law against him who
poisons his milk from day to day and
from week to week by compelling his
COWS to drink from filthy pools. Butter
uairymeh ought to issue II printed cir
cular, in which are certain questions
to be answered, as follows: Do your
COWS feed on swamps or on Doggy
lands? Have you sweet running water,
abundant. permanent and convenient
tor stock? Have you shade trees for
your cows Do you use dogs and stones
70 hurry up the cows from pastures at
milking time? Do you cleanse the ud-
iers of cows before milking by wash. I
ng the cows ,teats with their own
milk, and practice further economy by
the droppings to go into the
milk pail?" :