The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-11-27
The Street Cheese Market in Little
Falls, NesU York.


The business of dairying is twofold. Part first
beginsin the pasture and ends when the cheese is
boxed part second begins at the boxing and ends
upon the dinner-table. The former is manufac-
ture; the latter, trade. The various phases Of
the trade in dairy products are of interest. In
the factory associations the power to sell the cheese
is vested in single man, and he is general
ly the best business man Of the neighborhood.-
The salesmen Of the different factories meet the
buyers frsm the distributing centres at stated
place ence each week, and the cheese is bought
and sold in large quantities. These points Of
meeting are called the interior markets. The
Oldest cheese market in the United States is at
Little Falls, in Herkimer county, Y On Mon
day morning of each week from April to Dec
one Of the streets Of this thriving village is fill
ed with wagons loaded with cheese boxed and
ready for shipment. The buyers 60 from
load to load, lifting the covers and plunging their
sharp steel 'triers' into the cheese. Bids are
made and raised" and couple of hours are
passed in bantering. Before noon generally the
cheese has all changed hands, and is piled up Cd
the platform of the freight-house waiting for the
regular ''cheeSe train" upon the New York Cen
trail Railroad. This morning trade is, however,
but small part of the days business. The
cheese thus sold is made in the few 'tprvate dali
ries'' which have thus far withstood the tenden-
cy toward the factory system, and ranges in
among from five hundred to eight hundred boxes
weekly. In the afternoon the great trade takes
place. The statesmen of fifty to hundred fac
tsries come upon the marketand are met by New
York dealers or their purchasing agents In this
trade seldom any cheese is shown, the quality of
each factory being knewn to the buyers either from
examination at the faccory or by the general rep
utation of the establishment In 1871 "Dairy-
mems Board OF Trade was established, and Hon
K. A. Willard elected president Avery elegant
trade-room was furnished by the citizens of Lit
tie Falls, and this is the headquarters of the
board. The room is provided with all the con-
veniences for business, but the men trading at
Little Falls had become so accustomed to trading
upon the street that the curb-stone still maintains
a firm bold upon the traffic. The trade is in
large amount during the midsummer, sometime
10000 boxes, or 600, 900 pounds, 500, 10 val
ne being transferred at single meeting -Hdr-
per's Magazine for November
Toe MUCH LAND "A writer in the Germantown
Telegraph contends that most farmers cultivate
too much land to do tie work well, and, there
fore, it is Improbable. In the course of an ar
tcle on the subject be says:
hold to the principle that one shonld cult
vate just as much land as he has the capital and
ability to cultivate well, and not an acre more
It is far better to get two tens Of hay from one
acre than from two. Better to hervest sixty
bushels OF corn from an acre than to 90 over
three after that amount, as too many do. So
with grain and potatoes. So with everything
raised We have farmers here who will plant
ten acres of potatoes and get five hundred bushels
and others that will harvest the same amount
frem two acres Here is an evidence of vast
amount of labor entirely thrown away, to say
nothing Of seed wasted and feelings hurt, all on
account Of this Unsuitable thirst for accumulate
ing and running over so much land