The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-23
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ical people will regard this consideration
very highly
The inspector of milk at Providence RI.
after thoroughly testing the matter, asserts
and maintains by incontrovertible proof,
that srlon steak adding the loss on bones)
at 35 cents per pound is dearer than milk
at "a cents per quart, round steak (adding
loss on bone) at 20 cents, dear as milk at
IA cents per quart. corned beef at II cents
as dear as milk at Is cents and eggs at 30
cents per dozen as dear as milk at 90 cents
per quart. Hence he concludes that milk
at 10 or 12 cents even per quart is the
cheapest animal food that can be used
Such statements, gentlemen, have for us a
profound significance, as we contemplate
future probabilities. When the economies
relating 10 the food we eat shall be better
understood, and when our vastly increased
population, together with the hugely grow
ing needs of the old world shall draw on the
dairy Of the country for its great, and
cheapest staple of animal food and consume
the productions of millions of cows. Let
us consider for moment the increasing de-
mand upon us of portions of the old world
a demand that Is to gather volume and mo-
mentum like rolling ball of snow, Eng
land, for instance, has been from time i'm
memorial great cheese eating country.
Her laboring and her poorer classes demand
IL as the cheapest and mostnutritious ami
NAL food within their reach and this de-
mand will increase as long as the article
can be supplied at reasonable rates But
while the people of England are increasing
at about the rate OF million year, her ca
pacity for producing butter and cheese is
not increasing.
The same may be SAID of Germany, TO
which England has looked for large sup
plies. The time is near at hand when
these realms must be very largely supplied
from abroad; and as there are no other see
tons of Europe making butter and cheese
to export in any considerable quantity, the
want will have to be supplied as matter of
necessity, by the dairy Of the United States.
1t is estimated that the demand or cheese
in England alone will increase at the rate
of ten million pounds 10000, 000) per year;
while the annual increase in our home de-
mand, is about six million pounds (c,000,-
00O). With the constant improvement in
the quality of our cheese. the rate of con-
sumption will expand, so that with the in
crease in export, we may reasonably as
sumo that within the next score of years,
the darymen of this country will be called
upon to furnish of this single article, not
less than billion pounds yearly. But high
above that of cheese, rises the butter in
terest. We export as yet comparatively
but little butter, but we consume nearly
four fold as much as we do of cheese-or
in other words, about So pounds of the one,
and l2 of the other, to each inhabitant
per annum.
Ipredict that there are gentlemen here
o-day who will live to see the time, and
yet not be very old, when the people of this
country alone will require billion and u
half of butter for their annual consumption
But, gentlemen, / must not occupy your
time in pursuing this train of thought. In
deed, the facts stated need neither multi
plicaton nor illustration, while they point
their own solemn yet transcendantly hope
full exhortation with an eloquence beyond
any poor words of mine. In minor strain
l repeat the old admonition to which we all
agree Keep the right cows; feed them
right; milk and handle them right; and
keep them, and yourself, and your dairy
rooms clean and unspotted from the world.
This admonition gentlemen, has broken
the ball-like necks, and crooked backs of
millions of shabby cows; it has reformed
and secured millions of pals and pans it
has opened cold, pure, springs of water,
and paved them round with stone; it has
scavengered, and made tidy and sweet the
dairy barn; it has banished from underneath
the foul, sweltering cellar with all its pesti-
lent gases and nameless odOrs; and it has
called in science philosophy, chemistry
the "last analysis" itself-to open the se-
cret arcana of nature, to resolve its fruits
back to their constituent elements. to ex-
plain the nature, the use, the profit, in fact
all the old Runic riddle concerning the
manifold forms Of tho food that is to lie
transmitted into milk. More than that, it
has given new skill and tenderer touch
to the winter hand that turns the mellow
| cheese and pats the golden ball.
l think, gentlemen, that in the good time
coming the position of the lines of our tri
angular dairy interests, will be gradually
changed, as indeed they are moving now.
They will no longer intersect at acute an.
| giles, but will form as it were. three sides
of hollow square. The wholly intersect.
ed side will be the line of milk the right,
of butter; the left of cheese. A particular
and comparatively separate class of cows
will occupy such line; and the dairymen
will follow but one line, and make spec
ialty of its appropriate production. There
| will be the milk-man, the cheese-man, and
the butter-man. They will not be, as is
too often the case now, one and the same
| man ono will market milk another cheese;
and the other, butter.
DISCUSSION.
Mr.. Henry Stafford. of Ouechee. VT. in
ouired if any one could give statistics as
| to the heating of milk. and keeping it hot,
| instead of using coolers. in the summer
He said he believed the butter made in
| the coolers, was not as good ms that made
| in smaller pans.
Mr.. Cheevcr, of the Nee England Far
made by heating milk to about f4S. and
then kcening II NOT lower than 81 lie
sad mill as scalded dpring hot weather
would no, sonr "a onckIv as if not scaIled
and was mnch mare s;mnIe and cheaner
than 70 uso coolers lie called mon Mr
Arnold. secretary If the American Dairy.
mems Association n state his,exnerience
in this matter
NJ Arnold said he inst spgoested mi.
me,hod of making butier in tie summer
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