The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-27
FACTS ABOUT CHEESE.

The Mohawk Valley has lost its
rank as the center of the cheese indus
try of the United States. The new
head center is at Wellington, Ohio.
The surrounding country abounds in
cheese and butter factories. The prin-
cipal cheese man in the State, Mr. G.
w. Horr, has his establishment there,
and it is one of the largest in the coun-
try. In a recent interview with cor
respondent of the Cleveland Leader,
Mr.. Horn reported very active de-
mand for cheese at satisfactory prices.
The home consumption has been great
er this year than last, and the demand
for export has been much increased.
The April milk this year melted
about 100 per cent more than last year,
the May milk about 80 per cent more,
the June fully forty per cent more, and
for July the estimate was so per cent
more than for last year. The prospect
for the remaining four cheese months
VAS very good. The yield per COW has
also been more than last year, though
not quite so many cows have been
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The chief American cheese districts
comprise a. small portion of New York,
part of the Western Reserve in Ohio,
few counties in Illinois, Kansas,
Michigan, Iowa, Vermont and Penn
sylvania, and good many counties in
Wisconsin. New York, Ohio and
Wisconsin lead in the order named.
Wellington, Ohio, is the largest coun-
try market, as shown by last years
statistics. Little Falls and Utica, N.
Y, stand next. Wellington shipped
100000 pounds more butter and
cheese than Little Falls last year. the
total shipment amounting to about o.
100000 pounds.
During the past five years about
100000 pounds have been exported
annually; the rest is consumed in the
United States. Most of that exported
goes to Great Britain, which in 1878
took over 12O,0O0,OOO pounds; and last
year much larger quantity. The
foreign demand for American cheese
is increasing, but not so rapidly as it
did ten years ago. From 1860 to 1865,
owing to the Introduction of the
cheese factory system in this 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 the last, but not
So large as in 1878. Commencing with
the last week in May, there were ex-
ported during the following eight
weeks of 1878 about $4,000 packages
of cheese; during the corresponding
weeks of 1879, about $4,000 packages,
and of 1880, about 635,O0O packages.
The foreign trade in American
cheese is almost exclusively for what
is called factory cheese, and covers
every grade and quality, from the
poorest skim milk cheese to the rich
est full creams. The bulk of the poor
est grades of cheese made in America
goes to England. where the poorer
classes use it in place of meat. Were
it not for the market thus furnished
for the cheaper grades of cheese, the
May, June, and July makes of Amer
lean cheese would have to be thrown
to the fishes or sold at nominal prices. |
The export of butter is also lncreas-
ing rapidly. During the past two or
three years there is an increasing de- |
mand for the very best creamery but
ter. "We have within the past six |
weeks sold nearly $1,000 worth of the |
finest creamery butter to one Liverpool |
house" said Mr.. Horr, "and such a |
sale as this, until within the last three
years, was unheard of in Ohio. This |
butter is shipped on a through bill of |
lading from Cleveland to Liverpool"
A great fire at Eureka, Nevada, |
Tuesday morning, destroyed most of
the business part of the town, and in