Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-08
FACTS ABOUT CHEESE.

/ Tdlk Us Tue ctulTe Vi tue CHctSt iluuS-
try of the United States The new
head centre is at Wellington. Ohio.
The surrounding country abounds in
cheese and butter factories The prin-
cipal cheese man in the State, Mr.. c.
w Horr, has his establishment there,
and il is one of the largest in the coun-
try. In recent interview with cor
respondent of the Cleveland Leader,
Mr.. Horr reported a very active de-
mand for cheese at satisfactory prices.
The home consumption has been great
Ter this year than last, and the demand
for export has been much increased
The April milk this year netted
about 100 per cent. more than last
year, the May milk about 80 per cent.
more, the June fully 40 per cent more,
and for July the estimate was so per
cent. more than for last year. The
prospect for the remaining four months
was very good The yield per cow has
also been more than last year, though
not quite so many cows have been
MIXED.
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 Wis
consin, lead in the order named. We'll
lington, Ohio, is the largest country
market, as shown by last years statis-
tics. Little Falls and Utica, N. Y,
stand next Wellington shipped l,500,-
600 pounds more butter and cheese
than Little Falls last year, the total
shipment amounting to about 9,000,
900 pounds.
During the past FIVE years about
I10, 100000 pounds have been export
ed annually; the rest is consumed
in the United States. Most of that ex-
ported goes to Great Britain, which in
1878 took over 10000, 900 pounds,
and last year much larger quantity.
The foreign demand for American
cheese is increasing, but not so rapid
ly 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 1878. Commencing
with the last week in May, there were
exported during the following eight
weeks of 1878, about $4,000 pack
ages of cheese; during the correspond
ing weeks of 1879, about 52S, 900 pack
ages, and of 1880, about 635, 600 pack
ages.
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 cheeses to the richest
full creams. The bulk of the poorest
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 enormous
May, June and July makes of Ameri-
can cheese would have to be thrown
to the fishes or sold at nominal
prices.
The export of butter is also increas-
ing rapidly. During the past two or
three years there is an increasing de-
mand for the very best creamery but
ter. 1--WE have within the past six
weeks sold nearly $1,000 worth of the
finest creamery butter to one Liver
TT Ir Efap Il
such a sale az 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"
New INDUSTRY FOR PETRoLEA.-The
PetroleG Topic says: 1t will be re-
membered that some time ago the en-
terprising refining firm of j. l.. Engle-
hart & Co. commenced the sinking of a
well to the proposed depth of 1000
feet, for the avowed purpose of testing
the idea entertained that hitherto un-
developed vein of petroleum lay far be-
meath the one at present worked at a
depth of five hundred feet The work
on this deep well' has been unremit-
tingly continued, and on Monday
morning last. had reached depth of
1,1S5 feet without developing anything
specially novel At this point, how
ever, the drill plunged into a bed of
pure SALT and up to the date of writing
had bored through one hundred feet of
this substance.
The BEST VEHIcLE-An anecdote
is told of physician who was called
to foreign family to prescribe for a
case of incipent consumption. He gave
them a prescription for pills, and he
wrote the direction: Zone pill to be
taken three times day, in any con-
venient vehicle" The family looked in
the dictionary to get at the meaning Of
the prescription. They got on well un-
,, til they got to the word vehicle. They
found cart, wagon, carriage, buggy,
wheelbarrow" After grave consider
alton they came to the conclusion that
the doctor meant the patient should
ride out, and while in the vehicle he
should take the pill He followed the
advice to the letter, and IN few weeks
the fresh air and exercise secured adj
vantage which otherwise might not
have come.
A flower has been found in Northern
Mexico that has perfume like that OF
whisky and when lot of prospectors
from California got into field where
it grew. they were just wild with ex-
element, until they found where the
oder came from.
An old Highland clergyman who
had received several calls to parishes,
asked his servant where he should go.
The ser:ant said: "Go where there is
most sin, sir" The preacher conclud-
ed that was good advice, and went
where there was most money.