The New York herald., 1879-12-14
The Great Staples OF Our stat

| of the average breakfast tablets point as
to which the historians are not clear; bu
it is at least certain that when he did it hs
made an uncommonly good stroke for the
future interests of this excellent Empire
State. He builded better than he knew for
Orange county and Delaware county and st.
Lawrence county. and. indeed, for coun-
ties too numerous to mention, whose prod
ucts would be of infinitely less value in
the market than they actually are II the
prejudice in favor of sweet and delicious
butter had not displaced in the civilized
world the primary passion tor fish lat IN
the North and olive oil in the South.
But the man who invented cheese, though
his individual existence may be as doubt
ful as that of the man who invented sleep
and as uncertain as the personality of
Homer. was the greatest of our benefactors
He not only made it possible for the men
and women of pborn generations to eat two
pieces of apple pie at a time when otherwise
they would have been equal only to one
piece a fact which alone should entitle him
to monument-but he furthermore accom-
piiShSu eAS iAet1O oSdACNcaIOhe Va AAA"nAh q
every acre of land in the arabic parts of
this State worth from twenty to fifty dol
lars more than it would have been worth
but for cheese.
Our Dairy Fair will perhaps do for the
country at large as much as we imagine
the mythical originator of these two prod
ucts to have done for this State if it shall
force upon the attention of the Am erican
people--upon the people of every State in
which the cow will thrive and pasture is
possible-the enormous source of wealth
that is within easy reach, and that has been
of all but two or three of our States. For
tunate finders of bonanzas cannot in the
nature of things be very numerous, but
the cultivation of dairy farm products has
enriched this State far more than would
the discovery of several bonanzas within
illimitable capacity for vhe multiplication
of these surface bon>lzas They have,
moreover, this especial beauty and great
superiority over bonanzas of the other
sort-that they are democratic. All the
grand product does not go into one or two
pockets, but the wealth they create is dis.
tributed with marvellous equality all over
the region interested. Every little farmer,
every milkmaid and cowboy gets share.
Bonanzas like that are wanted everywhere,
and the people should take into considera-
ton the possibility of their production.
ut <bor TO ho -,
this country fit basis for an empire. One
Confederate orator proposed without re-
gard to the proprieties of language that it
should be the corner stone of the new ma
tional fabric which our Southern relatives
proposed to construct out of those fine bits
Southerners generally, in the warmth of
their poetical natures, personifed and
crowned that excellent fibre, and declared
that it was king. They had reason to
cherish good opinion of it's importance.
1t made foreign nations dependent upon
them yearly tribute OF extremely handsome
proportions, beginning at about twenty
millions of dollars rather more than fifty
years ago, and running up to a hundred,
hundred and eighty, ninety and two
hundred millions. Certainly cotton did
we'll in it's day. 1t brought us money from
Europe or balanced our account there for
goods to the extent of about three thousand d
millions of dollars in half a century. But
imagine the state of the regal dignity of
cotton when the greasy butter tub and the
ignoble cheese bowl buoyantly ahead and
the dairy products of the land exceed in
value the crop of the Southern staple. And
the dairy interest is in it's infancy. Its
present value might fairly be compared
with the cotton value of 1880 rather than
1870; yet it beats 1870 very handsomely.
But the dairy products surpass in value a
crop that is ahead OF cotton in that particu-
lar. They stand higher in the scale than
the wheat crop itself They represent in
the present condition Of the industries
upon which they depend an annual produc-
ton of three hundred and fifty millions OF
of an increase to which there is no ap.
parent limit. Perhaps the greatest point
in our agricultural future Is the develop.
ment that our wheat production is likely to
reach in the next half century. No such iu.
ture as is open to us in this direction was
ever before open to any people, SC
fur as the history of the human race
is known; for all the great en-
pires Of antiquity were mere potato
patches of pigmy proportion compared tc
our wheat domain, while with our agri
cultural implements one man and one
horse can do in one day the labor thai
formerly required twenty men. Economi
cal writer's in Europe, by their futile rea.
sonings on this subject, give some measure
of the degree in which the plain truth i,
inconceivable from the standpoints of Euro
pean knowledge. They argue that the