New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-30
London u N ] Letter &
From our Regular Correspondent.

London Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Mr.. Victor Drummond, Secretary
Of the British Legation at Washing
ton, in his report dated at the clos,
of the year 1878, on the commerc,
of the United States, calls attention
to the rapid progress Of the dairy in
terest. Speaking from estimates
made early in 1873, he gives til,
number of mich cows in the United
States as II, 800, 900 and the valu.
of the cows averaging $500 each,
and of the land especially devoted
to their support is reckoned at 81.
300, 900, 600, or 927O, 833, $685. $685. Thu
annual production of cheese is esti
mated at more than 800, 600, 900 h.,
and that of butter at more than /.
600, OOO, 900 lb., their combined val.
ne being more than $500, 600, 900, OF
262, 500, 900. This production had
increased 33 per cent. over that Of
the preceding year, and since the
introduction Of the American factory
system in the manufacture of these
articles they have become import
ant items of export, the foreign sale
amounting in the preceding season
to 81 J, 100000 for butter, and $14,.
100000 for cheese. The exporta-
tions of the year paid more than ST..
600, 600 freight, or enough to sup.
port weekly line Of steamers to
Europe, and paid $5,000,O0O freight
to the railroads Of the United States,
and milk pays nearly as much more.
There are now important dairy dis
tricts in all parts of the south, and
there are indications that the north
ern cities will soon be supplied with
fresh grass butter throughout the
whole winter, from Mississippi,
Tennessee, and other regions, where,
before the war, the profitable
growth of grass was regarded as an
impossibility. The introduction
and wide spread distribution of
Jersey cattle have done this. The
old system of setting milk for the
raising Of cream in shallow pans is
now practically denounced in the
United States, and the deep canned
system has gained the approval Of
the leading dairymen Of the country.
Under the Cooley system the milk
is strained into cans 90 inches deeD
and 8 inches in diameter, each COW
cred with a small inverted pan, and
the cans are all packed in a closed
box which is then filled with cold
water, constant cold stream
passing through the box or ice used
to keep the water cool and the pans
keeping the water out of the milk
on the principle of the diving bell
1t is found that all the cream rises
within - hours, and, owing to the
temperature of the water being kept
below so degrees, the skinned milk
is perfectly sweet and useful for
cheese-making and other purposes.
In churning, the cream is now put
into an oblong box, which is ar
ranged to vibrate longitudinally, the
cream being dashed first against one
end then against the other the
swash of tile cream keeping the
walls of the churn always washed
down, so that the entire contents are
subjected to uniform agitation.
Dashers cleats, and beaters are done
away with. Mr.. Drnmmond adds
few words on Durand's cow.milking
machine, which had overcome al
most all the difficulties in the ear
lier inventions, but when he made
this report it could not be said that
the problem was yet solved. It is oh.
served that the rapid growth of the
dairymen interest in the East will
probably be surpassed in some Of
the adapted States of the West. In
the single product of cheese, the
State of Illinois advanced her yield
seyenfold between 1870 and 1874.
Consul General Archibald, of New
York, in his report dated February,
1879, quotes the following statistics
from a recent speech;- 'Of butter
the make is 1900, 100000 b., and
Of cheese $50, 100000 b., and the
export of cheese this year will be.
$4,000, 900 b., and Of butter at least
1870, 900, 900 lb. Here is Il value to.
the country of $3.50, 900, 900, and
only the entire corn crop is in ex.
cess Of it in value, while cotton and
wheat, hay and oats, and potatoes,
are all dethroned as kings and prime.
es in favor of butter and cheese. No
part of the Old World approximates
in the raising Of cows to the New,
where there are 20 cows to every 100
persons; and hence the increase this
year in the production and in the
exports. 1t is proper, however, to
say that not a pound Of the cheese
exported last year went to France,
on account Of a prohibitory tariff. :
Our Washington Letter.