Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-07

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Butter and Milk,

The New York Nation says :-Wbatev We
may think of OUT ancient ruler, King Cotton,
there is no question as to the alegiancs We owe
to Queen Cow. Every one of our agricultural
products. with the single exception of Indiau
c)rn, is surpassed 10 value by our dairy yield.
The value of the COWS. and of the land especi-
ally devoted to their support, is reokoned at
81, 800. 900 900. The annual production Of
cheese is estimated at 100000. 900 pounds. and
that Of butter at l 500, 900, 900 pounds. Their
combined value-estimsted at $3.50 900, ,000-
is only one fifth less than that of the coru crop.
The production has Increased 33 per cent. with
in the past year. Sine, the introduction of the
American tlctory system 10 the manufacture Of
them, they have become important objects of
export, the foreign sale amounting during the
last season to $l3 900 600 for butter and $l4,-
600, 900 tor cheese. The expectations this year
hsva paid more then 81 900 900 freight, or
enough to support weakly liue of steamers to
Europe. They have paid SIS 100000 freight to
the railroads of the country, and milk pays
nearly as much more.
Dairyiug is quiet industry, which is so dis
persed among ths great maj jority of farms in ell
parts OF the oountry that We fail to realize its
aggregate importance. As money producing 10.
dustry it is, under the combined Influence of the
factory system for cheese making and of the 10.
PRODUCTION of improved methods of butter maxi
ing, rapidly extending in every direction One
OF the very best butter making regions of the
o3u1try, both 10 quantity and qualify of proA
duct. is Nottheru Illinois and the acj ,ining
parts of the States to the north aud west of it.
A few years ago it wSs believed that good but.
ter could not be made 10 the Southern States.
There are now important butter districts 10 all
parts OF the South, and there are indications
that the Northern 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 40 impossible
tV. No siogle Influence has had more to do
with the increased attention given to butter
makiog in these districts that the introduction
and wide distribution of the cattle of the island
jersey. These we're formerly the ''Alderoeys"
OF the lawns and psddocks of the rich; they
ere now the practical butter producing animals
OF the best dairy farms throughout the c,uutry.
The favor with which they are regarded from
| an Industrial point of view is based upon the
phySo ogical fact that, having been bred for
centuries by the small farmers of Jersey, with
whom the sale OF butter has always been an inn
portant obj'ct, their butter secretion has beeD,
by artificial selection, more completely devrl-
oped than has that of any other breed Not
only is the quantity Of butter greater in proper.
| tion to the amount of food consumed, but the
butter globules of the milk are larger and richer,
developing more readily in the churn and work.
lna into 6tmer product. This excellence has
been recoe oeuiz9d for half century among those
who sought to produce butter of finer quality
tor fancy" use. 1t is now fast becoming
| known to those With whom butter making is q
business industry, and the extension of the
knowltdge promises to make the production Of
butter for export much greater source Of na-
tlonal wealth than it has hitherto been.