Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-09-23
fhrrSday Morning, September %, 1880.
Facts about Cheese

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Facts about Cheese.
The Mohawk Valley has lest
its rank as the centre Of the
cheese industry of the United
States. Tie new h sad centre is
at Wellington, Ohio. The sur
rounding country abounds in
G eese and butter factories. The
principal cheese man in the State.
Mr.. {. w. Horr, has his estab-
llshmelft there, and it is one of |
the largest in thcscomtry. in al
recent interview with a ceres
rondent ef the ] cader, MIR. Holr
reported a very active demand
for cheese at satisfactory prices.
The home consumption had been
greater this year thin last, and
the demand for export had been
much increased. w ? "
Inc April milk this wear net
ted about 100 per cent. more than
last year, the May milk about
81 per cent more, the June fully
40 per cent. mqre, and for- JnlVI
the estimate was fifty per cent
more than last ssem. The pres-i
pect for the Remaining four
months was very good. 9 The
yield per COW has also been more
than last year, though not quite
SO many coMs-haYe been(makeA-
The Tclief American cheese
districts comprise Al small pof-
ton Of New York, part of the
Western Reserve in 0liio, afeN<
counties in Illinois, Kansas, Mich
igan, Iowa, Vermont and Penn
sylyania, and a good many coun--
ties inAWisc6iisih. New York,
Ohio and Wisconsin lead in the
order named. Wellington, Ohio,
Is the largest country market, as
shown BY last Years statistics.
Little Falls and Utica, N. u,
stand next. Wellington ship
ped ! 100000 pounds more but
ter and cheese than Little Falls
last year; the total shipments
amounting to about 100000
pounds, EfENE - ~
During the past five years a.
bout 1l0,000,000 pounds have
been exported annually;the rest
is consumed in theUnited States,
Most of that exported goes to
Great Britain, which in 1878
took over 120,000,000 pounds,
and last year a much larger
quantity. The foreign demand
Tor American cheese is increas-
ing, but not so rapidly as it did
ten years ago.. From 1860 TO
1865, owing to the Introduction
Of the cheese factory system in
TINS country, the increase was
= tremendous. Since then it has
not been so rapid, but it has
been steady. The export this
year has been larger than last,
but ndt so large sin 1873. Com
mencing with the last week in
May, there were exported during
the following eight weeks OF
1873, about oU7, 600 packages Of
cheese; during thdcorIespolhling.
weeks OF 1879, about 528,00O
packages Of cheese, landsofi 1880,
about $4,000 packages.
The foreign trade i'll Ameri-
can cheese is almost exclusively
for what is, calledfactory cheese,
and covers every grade;lnd quail
ity, from the poorest skim milk
cheeses totherichest full creams.
The bulk Of the poorest grades
Oh cl1SSSS lIidOlc HI Aul(llOd S3OSS
to England, where the poorer
classes use it in place Of meat.
Were il not for the market thus
furnished forthe cheaper grades
of cheese the enormous May,
June; and July makes Of Amer
lean cheese Mould AhaNe - be
thrown to the fishes or sold at
nominal prices. 81 a'' 90 ' '
The export of butter is also
inca easing rapidly During the
past two or three years there Is
an increasing demand for the
very best creamery butter. "W C
have within the past six weeks
sold nearly $1,000 worth ofithe
finest creamery butter to one
Liverpool honse,D saidMn Holr,
s'and such Il sale as this, until
within the last three years, was
unheard Of in Ohio" This but
ter is shipped on a through bill
of lading from Cleveland to
Liverpool, = Scientific Amers-
. can.
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