Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-10-04
AgritnItnral department.
DAIRY PRODUCTS; THE AID
VANCE EARLIER THAN
USUAL.

The future of dairy products is just
now matter discussed not only in spec
ulative circles, but among regular deal
ers. 1t is a fact that the customary
autumn advance in prices has come this
year thirty days earlier than usual, and
holds with all the tenacity observable in
cool and favorable shipping days along
with the early frost To-day fine cheese
holds stifly for Is IL cents, while at
this date IN 1879 6 l-2 cents was full
quotation. Fine creamery butter held
now at 80 cents was but % cents year
ago. Just a month later, however, in
1879, cheese had touched Ii IL cents,
and creamery butter 80 cents; while
still further along, in early November,
fine cheese sold at Is IL cents, and by
January was quoted at l6 cents. Mean
time butter advanced to 40 cents, at
which price, the first week in December,
several Boston creameries changed hands
This squirt of prices was largely ben
eft to the distributors, who in August
and September last bought freely of the
farmers, but this year the advance has
been the farmers "boom." They having
had free market all this spring and
summer, have been able to anticipate
every turn of the speculator, and to get
the higher prices themselves. In the
opinion of the largest operators, the fu-
ture. especially on cheese, is promis-
ing one. They are unanimous in the
statement that all the stock made pre-
viOus to August has been distributed,
and that for the next eight months of
consumption the cheese made during
August, September and October must
suffice. They claim that all the July
cheese has been sold and resold, and
that the prospects of 16 and II cents
for fine cheese before Thanksgiving
time are very good. High prices for
cheese will, of course, curtail the con-
sumption here, as Americans look upon
these hardened curds as luxury but
abroad, cheese is an item of necessary
: food, and foreign markets that have sus-
tanned 20 cents here since the war are
not likely, with their present purchasing
conditions, to hesitate this fall at price
they conceded last winter. The present
price of cheese is about 10 per cent I'M
der that of butter. One hundred pounds
of milk will make either 10 pounds of
cheese or 4 pounds of butter. The low
prices of the winter of lS79-79 when
s cents to 9 cents was the current value
of cheese, secured an introduction for
American product into every European
market, and the better prices during
the following winter of l879-9O are
due chiefly to the demand of these new
customers. The coming season our
Southern States are to be large consum-
ers, and even Boston houses have begun
filling regular orders to the Gulf States,
New Orleans being noticeable deliver
ing point. This is new field for Ros-
ton, and its large demands are working
an influence for the first time in other
distributing cities. The operators have
the more confidence in cheese because it
is not produced during the winter
months. The last of October nearly all
the cheese factories close, and the few
cheeses that are made by home industry
later have no influence even on cross
road prices. Butter, on the contrary, is
made all the year round. and the West
sends in January as good favored and
as richly colOred butter from grain-fed
new mich cows as comes along in Sep
TENDER or October. The trade do moi
differ materially In their views on the
future of butter They believe in high
er prices. The local sales of fine butte
for the next sixty days will be large, a
a majority of the householders who oc
cupy whole house lay in their winter
SIMPLY of the fall cburning. 1t ha
been demonstrated that June butte
when carried through the hot weathe
loses much of its flavor; whereas, Sep
TENDER butter. made when the cows ge
good grass, cornstalks, grain and roots
t. has flavor equal to that of June, and
not having the heat of July and Angus
to contend with. retains its flavor int
the early spring. Hence it is that tn
st single-tub business is an enormous on
b h, in October This demand, on accoun
eS of the improved condition of buyers, al
an o,, the dealers believe, will be twenty pc
ito cent more than last year. Hence tn
en- market will be cleaned up, and the sub
. sequent receipts will not be more tina
= sufficient to fill the regular demand
7 The receipts of butter so far this yea
have been 10000 packages, or abou
seven per cent in excess of last year
while those of cheese have been 61 90
packages, or over eighty per cent i
Il excess of the same time in 1879; Will
q prices are over one hundred per Ger
higher on cheese and about forty pc
ceut higher on butter.-.BoSton AdOei