Connecticut western news., 1878-12-11
OUR DAIRY INTERESTS.
VALUE OF THE BUTTER AND CHEESE
 PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.

PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.
 Erastus Brooks spoke as follows con- corning the increase of dairy interests in this country at the Dairy Fair in New York
 From the smallest beginning in the eastern part of this State, one county, almost alone, being at one time famous for its butter and it's cheese, the trade and profit and interest have extended to the northern and western counties of the State, until it became not only leading industry at home, but has created an im- mense demand from abroad. The Penn sylvania farmers and people in their best counties were quick to see the advantages of this new source of income here and to follow our example. Ohio, another border land, and especially northern Ohio, followed the example, and then came Michigan, nearly all of northern Illinois, Wisconsin. part of Iowa, and so on to the far West, and even on to the Pacific, the empire of butter and cheese takes it's way. Colorado and California ! udV0 C0dS0O uO OO OGdUCo OA A0AHOA uS c"AAN have become centres of large manufac- tories and of large domestic trade. Even Canada, exporting to England 10000, ,OOO pounds of cheese annually, has become competitor with us in the English market.
 At home $1, 300, ,OO0, ,OOO are invested in pasture lands and in 13,O00,000 milch COWS. Besides the many thousands of our domestic dairies, which delight the palates of millions of our home people, are 5000 manufactories of cheese. And yet of the thirty seven States, only about seven really supply their own consump- tion of cheese and butter, even with the tens of thousands of private dairies in the country.
 The value of the butter and cheese produced in the United States, and of the large amount exported, presents almost incomprehensible results to those who have not become acquainted with this industry.
 Of butter the make is 1,50O, ,O00, ,O0O pounds, and of cheese $50, 900 pounds, and the export of cheese this year will be 25,OOO, 900 pounds, and ot butter at least 13O, GOO, 900 pounds. Here is value to the country of $35O, 900, 900, and only the entire corn crop is in ex- cess of it in value, while cotton, and wheat, and hay, and oats, and potatoes are all dethroned as kings and princes in favor of butter and cheese; and no part of the old world approximates in the raising of COWS to the new, where there are twenty-nine COWS to every 100 persons, and hence the increase of thirty three per cent. in production this year, with like increase of exports. It is proper, however, to say that of 1O7, ,369, . 666 pounds of cheese exported last year not pound went to France, on account of prohibitory tariff.
 How New York State is enriched by these great dairy interests is best shown by the record. Here were produced in 1877-8 III, ,087, 486 pounds of butter, and 1O7, ,873, ,361 made in families. Here are 1,339,8 milch COWS, and Al, ,511, 1899 gallons of milk sold in the market, be- sides the whole consumption on the farm. Here, in 1874-and the increase has been enormous in the four years past-98, 725, 172 pounds of cheese were made in the factories, and TITS, ,413
 pounds in families. More than one- fourth of all the dairies of the country also, are in the State of New York. This State is indeed the great producer of butter and cheese, and this city the great point of their export.
 The old mother country, as receiver of all this wealth to us and benefit to her,
 even if little more than kin, is good deal less in kine, for six times more COWS F Great Britain, and more than twice the , number than in all France, and two and 7 half times as many as in all Prussia, all large milk producing countries. With , four times more people in all Great 1 Britain, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Nor way, Finland, Austria, Hungary, and f Switzerland, this country produces more butter aud cheese than all of them to- ! gether, and the best cheeses of old Eng , land are only successful competitors with the dairies of Herkimer, Oneida, Chau- tauqua, and Jefferson, and those of Yer , mont.
 The great quantity of cheese in this building, among which are the best f samples from the Old World, and the ] best from New York, is suggestive of
 the fact connected with our deficient f foreign commerce. Almost all of the
 16O, ,OOO, 900 pounds of butter and cheese , sent ont of the country, and the many millions in value brought in-shall l say to our shame or to our mistakes ?- . is carried in foreign vessels. In ou1
 harbor the Stars and Stripes floating
 over American steamers sailing abroad is
 the constant exception to the rule.
 Nearly all that is paid for freight and passengers to and fro is put into the { pockets of persons who are either more
 economical, more careful, or more skill full than ourselves. Ships go out loaded between decks from bottom to top with American produce, and yet they are not , American vessels. It was not so always
 in the past, and will not, I trust, always be so in the future. Nor would it be SC . now with wise and true men as our rep = resentatives in the State and in the na- tion. Surely the great granary of the
 world, and the great cotton and tobacco
 country of the world, with iron enough