The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-03-23
A New Farmers Industry.

Geo. W. Hensel and fifteen other resi-
dents of Dinsmore and Franklin town
ships went to Degraff Wednesday TO in.
vestigate the cheese making industry. A
desire 10 keep dairy has attacked the
Dinsmoreans and Franklinites The visit
to Degraff was to see how the business
looked In actual operation. The Journal
can tell them something about what II
means 10 keep 10 or 20 cows, and will not
charge a cent for the information. With
the "lfs" all out of the way, keeping a
dairy is a very nice business, but The "ifs"
are stubborn. In the first place, the con-
dtions all need to be favorable 10 make it
profitable occupation. The season
should be rather wet than otherwise to
keep the pasture in good condition, for
COWS will not give milk unless they have
plenty of milk producing food. Should
the pasture fail the jig is up, sure enough.
The cows should be young, of good grade
and easy TO keep. The most satisfactory
way is 10 sell the milk at so much 100
weight at the roadside, but If the milk is
made up for each patron, great care
should be exercised to procure an expert
enced cheese maker. II the cheese Is not
Of good quality, Of course 1t will not bring
the best price. The patron who has lot
of COWS that give rich milk will take his
chances with the one who has cows that
give milk of the most beautiful blue tint
II all goes into the vat at so much pound.
Cheese making IS an industry should only
be pursued in those years when the price
of cheese is high. To work hard all sum
mer and get nothing for 1t is very dis
couraging, but that is what happens about
one year In hye. The business is one that
must be conducted with the utmost care
and intelligence More than in almost
anything else eternal vigilence is the price
OF success. There is no business In the
world so exacting In this respect 1t is
much like publishing newspaper. The
paper has TO be printed every week,
whether there is any news in it or not,
and the cows have TO be milked twice q
day at regular hours whatever the wealth
er There is no getting away from it, the
work must be done and done then No
more going of on visit when It is too
wet to plow the corn and returning when
It suits-those cows have to be milked
If the cows do we'll, II the pasture is good
II the price Of cheese is away up, If you
can afford to hire the work done wher
you happen to want vacation, II some
dishonest person does not run away with
the funds and the rains never come a
milking time, keeping dairy is very
nice business. OF course, this is a gloomy
picture, but II will be found true TO life
more often than any thing else. II
Lorain county, the location Of the mos
extensive cheese interests in the state
perhaps in the United States, the cheese
buying syndicate holds q mortgage oil
about every third dairy farm. Thi
sounds like calamity talk, but If the farm
ers Of Dinsmore and Franklin townships
20 into the dairy business the Journa
hopes this article will be pasted on thu
inside Of the door of the cheese factory
and at the end Of the season, If this prove
to be far wrong, we will set 'em up
Whatever you do, do not undertake Il
combine dairying and general farming
II you do, neither will pay.-The S!dne.
Journal.
Guess the Journal man must have beei
dreaming when he penned the paragraph
about the syndicate holding mortgages OIL
every third farm in this vicinity.-[ED.I