The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-06

A PECK AT THE CHEESE.

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Geo. w. Peck, of the La Crosse Sun, re- |
Gently delivered an address before the
Wisconsin State Dairyman's Association.
The following is an extract from the witty
document
FetloTC dt1l-d-tiopistS In calling upon
me, on this occasion, to enlghten you upon
a subject that is dear to the hearts of all
Americans, you have got the right man IN
the right place. 1t makes me proud TO come
TO my old home and rnfolG truths that have
been folded since | can reIreCloer. 1t may
be said by scoffers, aud ii has been sai0 to-
day, in my presence, that dldn I Know
enough TO even milk COW. / deny the al
legation; show me the alligator 1t any
gentleman present has gotta COW here with
him, aud a clothes wringeE l viii show you
whether l can milk COY or not. Or, II
there is cheese mine bere handy, l will
demonstrate that ! can Ten71ct.
The manufacture of cheese and butter has
been among the earliest industries. Away
back in the history of the world, we End
Adam and Eve conveying their milk from
the garden of Eden, 10 a one-hoTse wagon.
10 the cool spring cheese factory, 10 be weigh
ed i'm the balance Whatever may be said
of Adam and Eve 70 their diseredt in the
marketing OF the pOducts of their orchard,
il has never been charged that they stopped
at the pump and put waiter in their milk
cans. Doubtless you all remember bow
Cain killed his brother Abel because 4 bel
would not let him DO the uhurniug. We can
picture Cain ard Abel driving muley cows
up To the ho,he from the pasture in the
North, east conner of the garden. and A bel
standing At TIE bars with tin pail and
tEree-les ged stool, smoking a rneerschaum
pipe and sinsing, "Hold the fort, for l am
coming through the rye while Eve sat on
the randall altering over her last years
poonaise, ard wiuking at the devil who
stood behind the milk house singing, 4
want TO se an angel" After he got thro'
! milking he came up and saw Eve blushing,
and he said, Madame, cheese it, aud she
chose It
But 70 come down to the present day. we
/ find lat cheese has become one of the most
/ important branches OF manufacture, 1t iS
ue;t in importance to the silver interest
! Aid, fellow cheese -mongers, you are doing
! ourselves great injustice that you do not
! getit!cn congress TO pass a bill TO TemoneJiZe
cheese. There is more cheese raised in this
country than there is silver, and il is more
valuable. Suppose you had not eaten q
mouthtul in 30 days, and you should have
placed or the table Before you ten dollars
stamped ont of silver bullion on one plate
and nine dollars stamped out OF cheese bull
lion on another plate. w hiCh wouId you
take first? Though the face value of the
niCe cheese dollars would be ten per cent.
below the face value of the ten silver dollars,
you would take the cheese. You coGld use
it to better advantage in your business
Hence, L say, cheese is more valuable than
/ silver, aun it should be made legal tender
Cor all debts, public and private, except pew
rent. l may be in advauce Of other eminent
fu=uciers. who have studied Ihe currency
question, but l want TO see the time come
and l trust the day is not far distant, when
4l-15 graIuS OF cheese viii be equal 10 dol
. lar la codfshf and when the merry Jingle Ol
slices OF cheese shall be heard in every pocll-
/ et. Then ever cheese factory can ma Ike lis
! own coin, money viii be plenty, every tod Y
+ Will be happy, aud there never will he any
more war. IJ may be asked how this cur
/ reuCy can be redeemed J wOuld have an
I inUcutrOrertibie bond, made OF limUurEeI
/ cheese, which Is stronger and more durable
/ When this is doGe you can tell the ric!
I from The poor man by the smel.Of his mon.
! ey. Nova davs many Of us dD net ever
! get smell OF money, hut in the go0l days
I which are con ing the gentle zephyr vii
/ waft 10 us the able-boGied limburgeT, ant
/ We shall know that money is plenty.
The manufacture of cheese is a cuisines
thas a poor man can engage i'm as We'll as TIN
I rich man. / say IT without fear OF success
( ful contradiction, and say it boldly, that
poor man with, saw 200 COWS, if he thor
Oughly understand his business, car markc
( more cheese than Il rich man who owns 30
oxen. This is susceptible of demonstration
II my boy showed a desire TO become
statesman, | would say to him, young man
get married, buy a muley COW. go to She
hoygan county, and start cheese factory.
Speaking of COWS, did Il etef occnr 10 you
'
if yuu should adopt muley cows instead G
h Urued cattle? Ii takes at least three ton
OF hay and large quantity of ground fee
annually too keep a pair of horns fat, ant
what earthly use are they Statistics sho'
( that there are annually killed $4,000 Gras
gers by cattle with horns. You pass Jaw
/ To muzZle dogs, because one in ten thousan
goes mad, and yet more people are killed D.
NcOws. w hat the country needs is more mU
! ley cows. Now that ar on the subject,
Z he asked w a IL bA host hrpp1 fgr Il
dairy My opinion is di vided betw tn
SOuthdOwn and Cochin China. Some lil
one the best and some the other, but as fc
me, give me liberty or give me death.
There are many reforms that should L
indugura.ed in the manufacture of cheese
Why should cheese he made round / Al
2 inclined 10 the belief that the making {
: cheese round is n superstition. Who la
+ not rather buy good square piece Of Chees
than wedgs-sh shated chuuE, all riiid AT on
: end, aud IS thin as u Cong ressInan's excus
, tor voting back pay at the other. Max
: yOut cheese square ard the consumer Wi
! rise up and call you another.
, Another reform that might 6e inauCurate
would be 10 veneer the cheese with buildin
, paper or clapboard, instead of the tii.j
J hcnored piece of towel. l never saw chees
2 cut hat l didn't think .ha5 the cloth arouu
it had seen service as handage on som
G other patient. But I may have been wrong
Another thing that does not seem to L
/
I seems to nae that solid cheese, one made b
= one of the old masters, with holes in 1t
/, DO not accuse you of cheating, hut don't 70
: | feel : little ashamed when you see chees
cut aud tile holes are tile biggest part of it
The little cells mag be handy for The skill
- I pers bu; the consumer feels the fraud in b
e iunermoS: soul. Among the Improvement
s made in the manufacture of cheese / mU
9 not forget that of late years the ci.eeSe dot
r. not resemble the grindstone as much as
Il The firta has bapn NJ hon
!, the farmer could not find his grindstone, 9
:, he had to dc was to mOrtise Il hole in ii
middle OF a Cheese, aud turn ii and grind h
! Scythe. Before the invention of nitFO-gl lyC
{ rine, il was good days work 10 hew q
l. cheese enough for n meal. Time has wor
e ed wonders in cheese.
D DFCEITFUL and artificial people a
=, generally cGught in their own trans. Tn
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