The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-03-29
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
Some Strange Figures.


Richmond Republican, SO fully ap-
plies TO this country, that we copy
it in full i:
1t is strange what results the in
dustry of fifth of a century will
produce in the material wealth of q
nation SO rich in all the crude re-
sources of husbandry as the United
States. If we should ask farmer
in the great wheat producing North
west what, in his judgment, is our
important crop he would, if he was
not posted, unhesitatingly say
Wheat. If the same interrogation
was put to the cotton, sugar or to-
bacco farmer Of the South, he would
doubtless. mention the crop which
brought the most wealth to his par
tlcular branch of agriculture while
the corn raiser would hold the fort
for corn, and so on through the va
rious industries of the country, each
asserting it's Importance, like doe
tors, lawyers and politicians, who
are constantly saving the country
from utter ruin financially and phys
ically. In the course of an article
on Cheese" in the Philadelphia
Ledger, we obtain the following
figures, which, if true, and we have
no good reasons for doubling them,
having given the subject little or
or no research, beyond the needs Of
our own table, will be as much of a
surprise TO many of our readers as
they were to US. 1t says that since
cotton was dethroned corn has be-
come king, but the COW is after the
corn and may yet have to be made
/ queen, since the COW now furnishes,
in butter and cheese alone, products
second in value only to the corn
crop of the country. The Interna-
tional Dairy Fair, which is now in
session in New York, has called at
tention to the statistics of the butter
and cheese manufacture, from which
it appears that there are $4,000, 1000
cows in the United States or more
than there are in mum Der OF Euro
pear nations having four times the
population of the United States.
The value of the butter and cheese
products is s50,0O0,0OO more than
the value of the wheat crop, and is
second only TO that Of corn. The
Importance of the industry is shown
by the fact that over $6,0OO,O0O is
paid annually for the transportation
Of butter and cheese to consumers,
81, 100000 being paid as ocean
freight. The exports have been
steadily increasing, and this year
will amount to 100000 pounds
of cheese and 25,OoO,O pounds OF
butter, and in this great and rapidly
growing industry, Wisconsin bears
no mean part, in point of amount
and quality produced, with an out
look unequalled by any other State
in the Union. In the years gone
by the now rich counties of Sheboy-
gan, Manitowoc, Brown, etc., bor-
dering on Lake Michigan, were
counted as almost valueless by the
pushing, stirring, hurrying class of
farmers who were seeking the more
readily opened prairie grain farms
in Western Wisconsin and Mime
sofa. But while our grain raisers
have been abundantly prospered,
those who halted in the timber
counties near the lake, have been
more abundantly prospered, and to-
day, while our farms are worth
from $25 to $40 per acre, their
farms are worth from SO to 800
per acre.-Nor are the chances for
dairy farms in Wisconsin all taken.
One hundred thousand stock, but
ter and cheese farmers can now OBJ
tain cheaply, more land, wall adapt
ed to their purpose, than they can
manage, along the line of the Wis
consin Central Railroad and on
Lake Superior. We recommend
the locality named because it is &C.
cessible to market, and because
of its peculiar adaptabiIitY to this
great source of solid wealth. We
visited the region above mentioned,
during the latter part of June, and
while passing over country, were
not a careless observer, but saw
abundant evidences of Its grass
producing qualities. AT all the old
construction camps, the camps of
/ lumbermen and miners, we never
saw brighter or rapker clover, and