Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-03
THE BUTTER INTEREST IN
ORLEANS COUNTY.


The leading farming industry in
this county is dairying, and while
the influence of oleomargarine and
the depressed state of business has
brought the price of butter below the
seeming cost of the product, it is a
difficult matter for our farmers to
shift their dairy business to anything
else that at present promises to be
profitable. The county is we'll adapt
ed to dairying, perhaps as much so
as any county in the state, with the
exception of Franklin. Our soil is
fertile and the average pasture is
good. Much of the new land pasture,
all about the county, produces the
grasses most necessary for the pro-
duction of sweet butter.
Experience is proving that the
creamery system, adopted in so many
states and localities, is much better
than individual manufacture, both
in regard to the expense of making
butter and cheese, and the increased
prices which the factory made article
brings in the butter markets. We
give the following from an address
delivered by Joseph H. Real, Presi-
dent of the American Agricultural
and Dairy Association. before the
National Convention held at New
York, recently, and commend it to
the attention of our farmer readers
"Associated dairying of creamer-
les, which comprehends the association
together of a number of farmers,
who take their milk to a central point
where it is manufactured into butter
or cheese by one method, insures the
best article at the least cost, and
should be encouraged. Here the
farmers gather daily in person or by
representatives. The milk of the
morning is converted into butter OF
cheese before night. Within ter
days the product is marketed anC
| sold, as rule, and the cash returned
which every month is divided among
the patrons. Thus the minimum risl
is assumed, and the farmer has TIL,
cash in hand for his products to pur
chase his supplies at the minimum
price.
The creamery makes a difference
of $25 COW, at least, to the farmer
This to a small one, with II to 2,
COWS, means $500 to $500 per year
or enough in ten years to pay for
good 100 acre farm. In the on
, case he may realize bare subsist
ence; in the other, he may gain wha
: to him is competence. Creamel
les may be built and run successful
, IN every neighborhood where ther
; are 800 cows within a radius of eigt
miles. There can he no OVERRIDING {
| the business if dishonest competitio
: is stopped; for our own people wi
= continually take more good butte
' while our export trade: now next
f nothing, may be made great. W
e can export as much butter as we no
3, make, by proper care and attention
l. In the section now devoted to dair
a ing we can easily double the pro,
;. uct, as it is not half occupied ar
what is occupied is not half develo
J ed. Loudoun County, Va, 40 mil
Ii from Washington, is one of the oil
. est farming districts in the Unit,
States. Creameries were only intr
n duced there last year when the Mess
It Kingsley Bros, of Hamilton, esta
h lished fonr, and now as good butt
n is made there as anywhere, and tt
" year they will quadruple the numb
: in operation. NY friends, Capt.
~ S. Walker and Hon. j. w. Fost
1t are conducting large and fine. dairi
If in this state. Creameries make d;
= rying profitable to the farmer,
cause the product, being of fin
quality, and uniform, commands
T. to 30 per cent more than butter ma
r. on the farm without the necessary a
h planes, and their introduction a
id success should therefore be encol
aged"
g.
no Hoods Sarsaparilla is made only by c. l. I'll
Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 1t is preps
with the greatest skill and care under the direc
ne of the men who originated it. Hence Hoods
sapariila may be depended upon as strictly D.
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