Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-01
Dairy Products; the Advance Earlier
shan Usual.

IMAM Usual
The future of dairy products is Just now a
matter discussed not only in speculative cir
clos, but among regular dealers. 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 observa-
BILE in cool and favorable shipping days along
with the early frost To-day fine cheese holds
stiflly for l3I cents, while at this date in 1879
Gt cents was full quotation. Fine creamery
butter held now ut 30 cents was but % cents
a year ago. just q month later, however in
1872 cheese had touched III cents and
creamery butter 80 cents while still further
along, in early November, fine cheese sold at
l34 cents and by January was quoted at lG
cents Meantime butter advanced to 40 cents,
at which price, the first week in December,
several Boston creameries changed hands.
This squirt to prices was largely a benefit to
the distributors, who in August and Septem-
Der last bought freely of the farmers, but this
year the advance has been the farmers
boom" They have had free market all
this spring and summer, having been able to
anticipate every turn of the speculator and
to get the higher prices themselves. In the
opinion of the largest operators the future,
especially on cheese, is a promising one
They are unanimous in the statement that all
the stock made previous 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 lG
cents and II cents for fine cheese before
Thanksgiving time are very good High
prices for cheese will of course curtail the
consumption here, as Americans look upon
these hardened curds as luxury; but abroad
cheese is an item of necessary food, and for
| eign markets that have sustained % 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 under 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 1S78-79 when cents to cents
was the current value of cheese, secured an in
| PRODUCTION for the American product into every
| European market, and the better prices dur
Ing the following winter of 1S79-SO are due
chiefly to the demand of these new customers.
| The coming season our Southern States are
to be large consumers and even Boston
houses have begun filling regular orders to
the Gulf States New Orleans being notice
able delivering point, this is new field for
| Boston, and its large demands are working
an influence for the first time in other distrib-
uting cities. The operators have the more
confidence in cheese because it is not produc-
| ed during the winter months. The last of Oc-
tober 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 rich
ly colored butter from grain fed new milch
cows as comes along in September or October
Tho trade do not differ materially in their
views on the future of butter. They believe
in higher prices. The local sales of fine but
ter for the next sixty days will be large, as q
majority of the hOuseholders who occupy a
whole house lay in their winters supply of
the fall churning. 1t has been demonstrated
that June butter when carried through the
hot weather loses much Of its flavor whereas
September butter, made when the COWS get
good grass, cornstalks, grain and roots, has a
flavor equal TO that of June, and, not having
the heat of July and August to contend with,
retains its flavor into the early spring Hence
it is that the single-tub business is an enor-
nous one in October. This demand, on &C
count of the improved condition of buyers,
all the dealers believe will be twenty per cent
more than last year. Hence the market will
be cleaned up, and the subsequent receipts
will not DO more than sufficient TO fill the reg
ular demand. The receipts of butter so far
this year have been 20, 600 packages, or about
seven per cent in excess of last year; while
J those of cheese have been 81 900 packages, OF