Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-14
Sunbury Cheese Facr ory.

EDITORS CITIZEN Having had tie
pleasure of being present on June oath
at the Sunbury cheese factory, when
the investigating committee were look
ing into the workings of said factory,
we give the following items;
This factory is owned by our enter
prising citizen j. L. Russell, to whom
we may ever look as the first man in
Butler county who dared launch out
into this important branch of rural in
dustry, which we doubt not needs but
to be we'll understood to be appreci-
ated here as elsewhere.
The business is superintended by
Mr.. G. II. Nodine, formerly of Craw-
ford county, Pa, a man of culture,
courteous and pleasing in his manners;
and Judging the workman by his chips
we must pronounce him skilled in his
business
This factory is working nearly five
thousand pounds Of milk daily, which
is furnished by the farmers of the sur
rounding neighborhood and it is daily
turning out nearly five hundred
pounds of first class cheese. That made
during May up to the 9th ult., had
been thrown upon the market for the
first, subject to the sorutinizing test of
the New York Board Of trade and sold
at the price of No l cheese, eleven
cents per pound at the factory; which
we see by the following calculation
makes cheese making in the summer
months, one hundred per cent. more
profitable than butter making.
Milk on an average yields one
thirtieth of it's weight in butter, and
one-tenth of its weight in cheese al
lowing one-third of the cheese for
manufacturing, which ought to more
than pay all expenses, and the patron
has two pounds of cheese left him,
where he would have had but one
pound of butter, after manufacturing it
himself at the expense of considerable
muscle and some strain on his patience,
or, as Is generally the case, let bis bet
ter half exert, to its full capacity, her
already over-taxed strength (she may
have a champion churn) for an hour or
two each day of the week, and sell at
from eight to ten cents per pound
During the month Of May butter did
not average more than ten cents per
pound in our home markets, hence the
advantage Of cheese making over but
ter making is easily seen. If this csti-
mate only approaches accuracy, 1t is
also easy to account for the impression
which so generally prevails in dairy
districts, that cheese making affords the
profitable mode of converting our pas
lures into money. IT. has been asserted
upon high authority, that in no other
way can so large an amount Of animal
food be obtained from a given quantity
of hcrbage, as by the dairy. 1t is capa-
BILE of demonstration that good milch
COW furnishes the most economical
means known by which TO obtain from
our pastures the alimentary matters
they are capable Of yielding
1t was estimated by the British
Board Of Agriculture, when Sir John
Sinclair was its president, that the
same quantity Of hcrbage which would
add pa pounds to the weight of an OK,
would produce 900 gallons of milk.
We find then one pound Of meat esti-
mated to be the equivalent of four gal
Ions, thirty-two pounds Of milk, which
would yield more than three pounds of
cheese. Some tests made by others fall
short Of this, but, Judging from the
best data we have, the opinion is held
that the food which will make one
pound of meat will usually make. from
two and onc-half to three pounds Of
cheese.
Why should we not dairy more in
Butler county? Our pastures abound in
springs OF pure water, covered with
rich, juicy and continuous harbege, su-
perior in quality, if not in quantity to
the pastures Of the counties OF Craw-
ford and Mercer, Pa, and North East
ern Ohio, where they deem cheese
making their most prolific source OF
profit and where Il cheese factory is
found in each and every neighborhood,
and where success, thrift and improv-
ment mark the home OF the farmer.
There their pastures are abundant, but
their grasses are mostly wild, and
their springs are frog ponds; while
ours are pure and living, and our
grasses tame, luxuriant and sweet
These facts account for the statement
made by the superintendent, that the
cheese made here surpasses in quality
and flavor that mado in the districts
where he was formerly engaged.
Then may we not hope that cur
county, which was one famous only for
soapmines and buckwheat, may yet
be renowned for its hightoned cheese,
as the counties Of Bradford and Sus-
quehanna are for their gilt edged but
ter in the markets of Philadelphia and
| New York. FARMER.
Flora, July 3rd, 1880.
-Philadelphia's supply Of water is
not only scarce but it is unhealthy,
Youthful till tappers are operating
very extensively in Erie county.
There is suffering among many OF
the miners in the Schuylkill anthra.
cite regions owing to short time, little
work, and delay in paying wages.