Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-30
improvements in Dairying.

improvements IN Da1ry1nS
At recent picnic of the dairy farmers
of central New York, Daniel Bachelor de-
livered an address, in which he SAID -
II shall not presume to talk much on
the operations and economies in dairying.
Yet there is striking fact to which am
constrained to allude. | refer to an al
most startling statement made by your
secretary before the dairymen's conven-
ton held at Stratford, Ont. in February
last. The gentleman, on that occasion,
compared the counties of Derby. England,
and Oneida, New York, as to the quanti-
| tity of their respective milk product, and
he showed that the American county had
80 900 more acres under cultivation and
| 2377 more milk kline than the English
county, and that Notwithstanding this ex-
cess in cows and cultivated land, the
American county gives but little over halt
as much milk as is obtained in Derby.
The secretary stated the amount of dol
lars in favor of the English county to be
81. 1856 per annum.
Now here is mighty difference, and
one that ought not to exist to that degree.
| Of course we all know that our long and
severe winters, together with our usually
hot and dry summers. have much to do
with the comparative paucity here. Yet
there ought not to be this amazing differ
ence; nor would there be if our pastures
were well drained, annually top dressed
and lined, and sown to such grasses as
are found in the English pastures. In
fact, If our grass lands received one-halt
the care that is bestowed on the English
| folds INN mi vyn,,l1 ha hn
result.
1t may not be out of the way to say
something of the effects of sweet heritage
on the flavor and SAVIOR of meat, milk
butter and cheese. Someone has said
that mere cleanliness in the dairy will
not of itself give sound milk and cheese,
unless the regimen of the cows is strictly
watched. If her foods unnatural and the
water she drinks impure, she may give as
much milk as ever, but that milk has a
terment in it which will breed mischief in
the cheese and malady in those who use
the milk" This is well and wisely said !;
and it is quite certain that the grass, hay.
roots, grain and water on which the cows
are fed must be clean and sweet, else the
best results can not be obtained, either in
butter or cheese making.
The mere art of making Parmesan and
other Italian cheese is we'll and widely
known all over Europe but what fields
= are there, outside of the dairy regions OF
the Pc. where every anxious weed is ex-
, terminated, the highest possible culture OF
the pasture practised, and the best nutri
q tive grasses and aromatic heritage en-
couraged? In a recent report Of United
States Consul Crane, late from Milan, on
darying in Italy, he describes the pro.
, cesses of making the various famous Ital-
ian cheeses. and shows how extensively
they are exported to all the world o.
the Gorgonzola cheese. he says that it sells
at 20 cents per pound. where it is made
D and also that this famous cheese took the
first premium three years ago at the dairy
shows in London, Paris, and Florence
Mr.. Crane says, abruptly. that "the excel
lence of this cheese is the sweet heritage
which abounds where the Gorgonzola is
, is manufactured. That the flavor and
! SAVIOR of the food on which animals are fed
! permeates the flesh, the fats, and the
lacteals, is not to be questioned, any more
than that the rich favors of the butter anC
cheese of some localities owe their gooC
qualities as much to the heritage on which
7 the cattle are fed, as to any manipulation
, in the dairy. be it ever so skilltul and care.
full.
! The farmers in eastern PENNSYLVANIA
are famous for the fine butter they produce
from their excellent grass lands Most Of
r the richest butter of that region is sold in
Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the best
OF it commands high prices. The Oar
, lington's of Pennsylvania send their entire
make to New York, where it sells at 81
per pound.
AS have ventured to say that the grass
7 lands of central New York ought to be
a improved. may add that our severe win.
ters will not permit the perennial growth
of many kinds of heritage on which the
European cattle feed Yet there is nc
! good sandy loan in our region, but wha,
will grow that prince of plants, the alfalfa
of Lucerne, which ought to be grown
, wherever the land is right for it. More
roots, too. should be grown and ted. Oil
7 meal and cake. if only for its fertilizing
, qualities, should be part of the daily
ration, at any rate in winter; and as your
secretary said at Stratford, '.our stock
ought to be more generally improved by
:, the introduction of good strain of blood.
and the wedding out of the poorer ami.
mails" Blackwell, $50 wears AGO. BEGAN
that Improvement in English stock breed
ing which has brought more riches to
England than even the great inventions of
Arkwright and Hargreaves. And the
good work that Bakewell begun has gone
on from improvement to improvement till
in our day. England leads the world in the
quality of her domestic and farm animals.
Chicago Times.
Mr.. w. I. Holland, messenger of the
House of Representatives, Washington, ID