The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-02-20
;Mmhe EARN.
The Dairy, and the Dairy Interest.
NUMBER TWO.
From the MARYLAND Farmer.

From the Maryland Farmer.
Pursuant to promise, l must pursue
this exhaustless and very important
subject further, and | hope to be able to
edify few at least of your readers who
are in pursuit of knowledge pertaining
thereto Few branches SO important to
the farmer everywhere, are so little
studied as the DAIRY.
| have been reliably informed that
the noted dairy districts of New York
have greatly improved in their material
condition since systematic dairying on
an extended scale was inaugurated. In
districts where only ten or fifteen years
ago majority of the farms were mort
gagged, they are now mainly owned in
fee, and many of their owners are
money lenders instead of borrowers,
and where slovenly "slip shod" farm
ing was general, thrift and prosperity
prevails: striking contrast
This is mainly attributable to coop
Grafton; to the organization of Dairy
Associations, and the establishment of
Cheese Factories and Creameries. No
agricultural interest in that renowned
agricultural State has been fostered,
studied and conducted with more intel
ligence, industry and enterprise than
the dairy industry.
Its success is in a great degree attrib-
utable to the aggregation of the intelli-
gence of large number of the votaries
Of the art, and by Club discussions,
through which each may possess him.
self of the intelligence and skill of all,
by which the improvements in every
branch are widely and rapidly dissent
mated Oral discussions alone were not
satisfactory to the sagacious, far seeing
men who were the leading spirits in the
great work of elevating this great in
dustry toits proper status in the numer-
Gus lists represented in this great pro
ducing nation
Able men were selected and sent to
England to CLEAN from the most re-
nowned districtsin dairying of the olden
country, all that was desirable in every
detail of the interest, which with vari-
Gus other means resorted to, has result
ted in making our dairy products today
equal, if not superior, to any in the
whole world
Among the other means alluded to,
were the careful and judicious selection
of the most intelligent and competent
men in their association, in each of the
respective branches of art, and inviting
them to prepare essays on each branch,
and submit the same at meetings for
the purpose, and finally in compiling
them into report, which they have
published annually for several years
so that now each member has DAIRY
LIBRARY, in which is recorded the fail
ures, discouragements and difficulties
encountered, as we'll as the successes,
the value of which is incalculable.
The representatives of all great in,
dustries achieving the greatest success,
have had similar organizations, and
have pursued like courses for the adj
vancement of their respective interests.
Farmers Clubs, regularly and fire.
quently convened, and properly con-
Quoted, where all the prominent branches
Of their vocation are carefully discussed,
have been productive of very desirable
results, 1t is lamentable that they are
not more general.
Every farmer is directly interested,
more or less, in the DAIRY subject, for
each should produce a sufficiency of
milk, cream and butter, for family con-
sumption, unless they are connected
with creamery association, in which
case it might be, and no doubt would
be most profitable to furnish milk to the
creamery, and obtain from it what but
ter might be required. The same will
apply to the manufacture Of cheese 1t
might be made a great convenience, and
also very profitable to establish in many
districts, even small cooperative cream
cries, where each farmer could carry
daily what milk he could proftablv
make, and get in return any quantity OF
dairy products that each might require,
without each family being obliged to
supply all the appurtenances for butter
making and dairying.
But one skilled butter maker in each
neighborhood would be required, and if
he understood his business, and requir-
ed all the milk supplied to him for man
ufacture to be what is required for max
ing prime butter, many families who
have never had any prime butter on
their tables, might enjoy it daily from
the creamery
For the encOurap cement of Such MS
may be disposed to make an effort to
establish the pioneer creamery in Mary
land, Delaware and Virginia, | will
cheerfully gratutously furnish plans
and specifications for constructing and
managing creamery, embracing all the
latest improvements of the day, includ-
ing my Gulf Stream Refrigerated Dairy
and Ice House Arrangement, and no
patent fee will be charged A graduate
of my Experimental Farm School is
now keeping a dairy of one hundred
cows in central New York.
He informs me that he takes his
milk to a neighboring creamery where
butter is returned for the milk, which
is shipped to New York city every
week, where it is sold by the season, at
2 ID cents per pound less than the high
est weekly quotations, purchaser fur
nishing the terkins. He saws that he
is well satisfied with the profits of dairy
ing on this system, and that his farms
are annually improving in condition
and value. j. WILKINSON