The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-06-24
The Skim-Milk SANDER.

The statement of the Prog. Age that the
products Of the cheese factories in Waldo
are inferior, and that the milk is skinned,
eXcites a good deal of indignant comment.
1t would be strange if it did not That
foolish SANDER is travelling the rounds of
the press us coming from paper OF this
locality, and is likely to do great harm to
the cheese makers OF the county. The
Age having replied to the former commu-
| nlcation OF our correspondent Unity, we
give below his rcioinder. and also a letter
from another indignant farmer
The editor OF the Progressive Age, see feels very
proud of his great shot with his skim milk gun. He
not only believes he has hit jackass but thinks the
charge well directed, or the shots efecual i'll
their execution, that there will be more bad cheese
| made in Waldo county. lear him brag OF his great
exploit! eve have received the thanks of many OF
the intelligent farmers who are prominently den
| titled with the enterprise in the county. And
we have no dOaGt that the quality OF that made this
year will be equal to that from abroad" He says in
his last issue that his other piece only friendly
criticism and the intelligent farmers thank him Tor
it, don't believe it. don't believe that any intel
igent farmer that was interested in any OF the nine
factories that were in operation last year in the
county will thank an editor for publishing to the
world that they skim their milk, and make second
and third rate cheese mat VIII not sell IN market
believe rather that the intelligent farmers of Waldo
county, who have patronized and fed the editor OF
the Age SO long and so well, will all say (f they
speak what they all think and fee), "Cursed be the
dog that bites the hand that feeds him" If he is
not stupid blockhead, he must know that his
cle of the tenth inst is calculated every way to
| njure us, and nothing more or less
"Friendly criticism" Yes, criticism with
| gence. You can scarcely take up paper this side
| OF New Y ork without seeing comments from his
"friendly criticism" about the skim milk cheese OF
| Waldo county. If you 90 on board the cars,
| amongst strangers any where, If the county of
Waldo happens to be spoken Of they will say.
''Why, this is the place where much poor, hard,
skim milk cheese is made, we should not like to
| come here to buy our cheese" One will say, ~
bought my cheese there last year. the recommen-
dation Of the officers Of the Dairymens Association
Of that county, and found it as good that Of New
York Vermont" Another will remark that he
does not understand how local editor dare in
sert such statements in his paper, if not true He
must be to assert in his paper that the farm
Of his own county skim their milk and make
none but bad cheese, If it is not 500
Well, my brother farmers of Waldo so it is and
/, for one think that Mr.. Rust will find out in the
end that his great gun that he hit the jack with is
like that of ludbras, doing execution at Doth ends
and the dead ass lies at The breech Of his piece.
UNITY.
To the Editor of the Republican journal: Win
you allow these few lines space in your valuable
paper? | noticed article in your paper of June
tenth, in reply to article in the Progressive Age
Of June third asking how we farmers and dairymen
liked il. | can tell you just what of them
thought of it. / think that Il that would write
such article that or allow such trash as that in
the columns of his paper, is no friend TO his county
state. 1t does not seem to me that such man
rs the editor OF the Progressive Age could speak
disparagngy of the cheese factories OF our county
for far they have been success. He speaks OF
the bitterness Of cheese, and also OF its being
dry; thinks the milk must have been skinned.
Now think some good old lady must have sent him
Il buttermilk cheese with tansy i'll it. And if
cheese does not prove BETTER he says than they did
last year, the New York and Vermont cheese will
drive ours out of the market. What ais the man?
Has he been feed in the sum of thirty seven and
half cents by each state to blow for them? If he
has got wonderfully taken in. gentleman that
lives Vermont than the Monroe Factory in
which am interested, about the time were clos
ing up operations last fall bought cheese at
fifteen cents per pound and stated that he had bought
New York cheese during the summer as low as nine
cents per pound. That don't look much like a fail
ure in cheese manufacturing in Our state.
WINTFRPORT.