The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-12-27
FARMERS COLUMNS.
TAE GEORGIA EXPERIMENT STATION,
EXPERIMENT STATION, GA.
extracts From Bulletins No. IS, Published
October, 1899, Concluded.

october, 1899, Concluded.
Cheese Dairying n Business in Georgia
In experimenting in cheese-making
al the Station the objects in view may
be stated as follows ;.
l. To determine by actual trial
whether our climate and other condi-
tons are favorable for the making of
cheese of good flavor and good keeping
qualities.
g. To give such facts as would enable
business man to determine whether
the business would probably prove q
profitable ''new departure" in Georgia's
rural industries.
3. To give such information about
details as may prove useful to those
who may wish to engage in the bust
ness.
4. To furnish a convenient "School
of Practical Dairying" at the Station.
to which any young man or woman
may resort for instruction in all the de-
tails, under the direction of a thorough
~ practical and experienced cheese and
butter-maker.
himself, after reading this bulletin and
securing all the other information.
whether he will engage in the bust.
ness.
The sDirecter, or Dairyman, does not
advise any inexperienced person to I'M
oertake to run cheese factory, even
on limited scale, without securing the
services of a skilled cheese-maker. But
any man or woman, of fair intelligence
and common sense, may undertake to
make cheese on small scale with COM
paratively little training. In a press
bul!etln" issued from this station, Au-
h. Ia
tended to any man or woman of fair
education who may wish to learn how
to make cheese" to visit the station for
that purpose. 1t was also stated "Mr.
wing says that in thirty days he can
teach such person how to make cheese
and butter according to the most ap-
proved methods.
1t was not said, nor can it reasonably
bear such construction, that an mex
per1enced person, no matter how intel
iiigent, could be taught in thirty days,
how to manage cheese factory.
/. 1t is not the expectation Of the Board
OF Directors, or of the station, that
cheese factories will spring into exis-
tence, as If by magic, all over the state
or that Georgia will in few wears COM
pete with New York, Ohio or Wtscon-
sin, as cheese-making state. But the
idea was and is that the business may
begin In small way, first by individ-
nals making few cheeses for family
consumption then by increasing herds
and the cooperation of neirhbors. the
industry would grow more extensive
and thus gradually would be enlarged
until cheese dairying shall have be-
come an established and important an
dustry.
In the meantime there is no insur-
"a Ia 0he4o -. A
success of regular cheese factory.
Wherever there is a neiohborhood Of
farmers, within five or six miles of a
common center, who control an aggre-
gate OF fifty to one hundred good cows,
small factory may be organized. The
services of "a expert cheese and butter
maker can be had for not more than
forty. or fifty dollars a month and
board, through the season, with the
condition that he shall teach one or
more young men the art. The first
years operation, especially of so small
dairy, would probably not prove very
persistent effort and enlarged opera
tons The business would require
push and energy, as well as intelligence
and skill, and business methods, -1ust
as these qualities are required in any
Ahusiness and everywhere.
Good pastures is one of the most i'm
portant preliminaries to a successful
milk production. Our own Bermuda
probably can not be excelled as past
ure grass. The station is now expert
menting with silage, having filed a
well constructed silo of the capacity of
seventy tons. With good, nutritious
ensilage for winter use, abundant
pasturage, and forage for greensoiling,
In summer, our native cotton seed meal.
supplemented by oats, bran, peavine
hay, etc. there need be no scarcity of
food.
1t should have been stated elsewhere
that the profits of milk production
whether converted into cheese or but
ter, depend very largely upon the Judi
cious saving and using the manure from
the cattle, and the feeding of pigs and
poultry on the whey and buttemiIk,
1t will probably be well to furnish
here list of the articles comprising a
cheese dairy outfit.
Outfit for a Twenty Cow Cheese Dairy.
seventy-fve gallon sel-heating cheese
one and tnree-fourth inch press screws Oh
l twelve inch upright cheese hoop. ..,,. 60
young America cheese hoops ........ so
six blade perpendicular curd knife. .. 90
l four inch horizontal cuPd knife ..... 7b
pint graduating glass. 76
! euro scoop. Observation-Disclosures. 80
uiiPper.'.' =, '.''.' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IS
l PLATFORM scale ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90
press rings Observation-Disclosures. rs
cAeeSe trler Observation-Disclosures. 30
AoIal''. 81 10
In addition to the above, bandare
cloth, rennetine, cheese color, salt, etc.