Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-01-15
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FULL PAPERS ON THE COMMON ROAD lUPi
AND ON cREAMERIeS,
AND AN ABSTRACT or REV. SLATER BROWNS
PAPER ON FRUIT CULTURE.
@Creameries," by Mr.. John Wilhelm
of Wooster.
The future OF the Dairy and the
Creamery business in this State, depend:
very largely upon number of circdm
stances, and these we must have in con
sideration when reviewing the subject
Ohio, with the exception of the
Western Reserve-an frequently call
ed Cheesedom-is new to the dai-
ry and creamery business, and eve.
ry man and every company will have
to bend their energies to that end, if
the point aimed at is to be accomplished
There is no manner of doubt that the
State is more than eminently adapted to
the business. Its cool and ever running g
streams, its native and cultivated grass.
es, excellent markets, splendid transpor-
tation facilities, and everything that
pertains to good stock, and that which
comes from it, all point to Ohio as a
State adapted to this great and profta>
bic industry. We haye the markets of
the world open to US. They are neither
confined to this State. or Pittsburgh, Bal
timore, Philadelphia, or New York, but
are simply limitless. and include all of
North and South America, the Island
of the Ocean-the island of Great Britt
ain and IreIand-and the continent of
Europe generally, wherever we find civ>
ilized beings. we have market for good
butter and cheese, and the better we
make it the, higher will be the price il
will command. The reasoning of Cream
cries and Dairy Farming can be more
minutely examined. and the better it is
inquired into, the more clear becomes
the claims of those who advocate dairy
farming. If we examine these claims
somewhat in detail, we will first see that
dairying has this advantage to start
with--that it is less exhaustive to the
soil than grain growing, and at the same
time more nearly restores in the manu-
rial element the drain upon the soil to
produce the grasses that are consumed
by the dairy. In other words the de
mand upon the soil to supply material
for tun of cheese or 900 pounds of but
ter, would amount to about 800 pounds,
and somewhat less of mineral matter, but
of this quantity only about 100 pounds
would be removed from the farm, the
balance going back to the soil in the
form of manure. While the grain, espe-
cially wheat, would remove several
times as much, and return nothing be-
sides the straw, toward restoring the
depletion caused by the growth.
Another of the advantages of dairy
ing arises from the fact that dairy pro>
duce has become not only a staple article
of diet, but in the case of butter, that
having become an article of luxury, that
the consumer cannot or will not dis.
pense with, cost what it may, and be the
price high or low. This makes a per-
manancy of demand, which again coup
pied with the fact that the supply of
fine butter and fine cheese, has never yet
equaled the demand, becomes source
of continuous income for the farmer
that has no parallel in the other agricul-
tural industries. There is no danger of
rivalry In foreign countries, for the en-
larging of dairy areas abroad is not like
ly. and the annual extending of new
channels of consumption abroad, and in
creased home demand-sll can be count
ed as advantages. Then dairying can be
made continuous, i. g., the supplying of
the market in winter as well AS summer
hence it is paying to the dairyman at all
seasons, and as prices may be said to be
reciprocal with the cost of production,
the farmer may be said to be making a
profit at the average run of quotations.
| Under the new order of farm dairying,
wherever dairying is practicable, it
should. by all means, be conducted by
associated efforts in creameries for but !
ter or factories for cheese. as one of the
schores" rather than labor of the farm,
the milking being done in the morning
and evening, and not usually interfering
with the farm work. and as the revenue
thus gained is likely to be nearly as
much as other farm operations combined,
the advantage of dairying can readily be
seen.
In combining dairying with that of
grain raising, several advantages arise.
The well-tilled farm is not surrendering
any of its productions to the dairy, fer
in fact, the herbage is increased CORES
pondingly, so that the farm that once
could only support dairy of 40 cows,
now supports them far better, and leaves
40 or so, or even go acres, for the rais-
ing of grain. The consumption of the
food by the dairy is paid back in three
fold way-milk, growth of stock, and
the manure value of the Weddings
which last may be calculated to quite
balance the first cost of the food. This
is showing that cannot be met with a
like exhibit upon the part of the exclu-
sive grain-growing farmer, and is one
that is having most telling effect in
increasing the productive energies of
the soil in the dairy sections of the
Northwest, if l may cite it as an illus
tration in point.
Yet another advantage in dsirying