The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-30
FARM AND GRANGE
Cheese Making.

RANDOLPH, Portage Co., ONO, July
29-The establishment Of cheese iacto- |
r;es has effected great change IN farm
ing in many parts Of the Western Ne
serve within the past ten years. Wheat
and corn, formerly the main romance OF
the farmer, are now raised IN smaii
patches and chiefly for home consump-
ton, and green pasture land has taken
the place of plowed fields. In the
Counties Of Lake. Ashtabula, Geauga,
Trumbull and Portage, nearly every
township has two or three factories, ana
thew are almost as numerous in Cuyaho-
oa I,orain and Summit Counties. For
merly the keeping of cows for dairy
curnoses involved great deal OF labor
and was undertaken only by a few
farmers whose land was not adapted Tor
grain culture, and whose wives ana
daughters were industrious ana skiii'ul
enough to assist in the making OF butter
and cheese Now, when the milking IS
finished the work is done. The milk IS
poured into large tin cans provided with
closefitting covers. which are placed
anon little platform usually built out
from the door-yard fence, to await the
coming of the wagon that transports
them to the factory. Some farmer, who
hasa horse to spare and smart boy
with time to drive, generally undertakes
tho work of collecting all the milk in his
na;ghborkood. and taking it, twice day
in Summer and once in Winter, to the
factory. When you drive along the
country roads in the early morning or
about sunset, you scarcely see farm
house without its brightly-scoured cans,
showing by their number and size ABOUT
now MANY cows are kept upon the place !;
or if the platforms are vacant. you are
snre soon to overtake spring wagon
that is collecting its shining load. Dairy
farming in this way has several advant-
anes to recommend it. The work is not
hard, there is no trouble or expense IN
marketing the product. and the money
return comes in regularly every montn'
30 that the farmer has always ready
cash for his needs, and can accurately
estimate his profits when he knows the
price of milk for the season. Attne enc
nf each month the factories pay theil
..natrons.n as the dairymen are called
for the milk delivered during the month
last proceeding the one IN winch TN
pavment is made. =,
The factories are usually small wood
an structures, cheaply built andFurnished
besides the equipment OF watts, ant
PRESSES. with steam boiler for heatln.
the milk and an array ofracks occupylni
the seconds story, ON which the cheese
lie while curing. l should think tina
the average cost OF factories in this VI
c;n;tv would not exceed $1,000.
Geanpa and Ashtabula Counties hav
seen some that must have cost owe
s1O 600. When the milk arrives ut tn
tactory il is put in vats and left to stan
until the cream rises, the product OF tn
mornings milking being skinned lat
- Tho sitaruoon. and that Of the ever
ings milking in the morning. sonny
times there is . butter -maklng oePar
meut attached TO the cheese factory, o.
oftener the cream IS sold 70 cream
eryn in the neighborhood, where It
ehnrned. All factory cheese appear
70 he made of skim. milk. Undoubtedl
the quality would be improved II Il
milk we're curdled before the cream ros
bnt the extra price, if any could De o
tanned, would not compensate
makers, they say for what they wou
lose BY not selling the cream: VINE
the milk has been skinned It IS hcats
to eighty-iour degrees temperature
turning on steam in pipes tnak Pa
through water beneath and around q
vat. which is an oblong tin box set INTO
wooden box little larger. After q,
an hour the watts are skinned. ana
creamy substance taken of. Then U
coloring matter, consisting OF pota
and powdered annotsa Commonly q
Incorrectly called annato), in the pr
portion OF two pounds of the former
one of the latter. dissolved ia four g
Ions OF water, added. One-halt pint
this fluid to 1000 pounds Of milk is 9
formula in the factory visited ne
this village. The young woman
charge Of the establishment (tor I
whole concern was under the super
sendence Of an energetic person j,
-.-c;r~ ;rtc old maidcnheOd) said q