The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-19

Rafryimg i'm West Virginia.
The creamery AZ Morgantown has
proved q success ever since it was es-
tablished, in fact sufficient cream
can not be secured for making h&lf
enough butter to supply the demand.
That there is money in dairying has
been proven to the satisfaction Of
the large number OF our farmers who
supply cream to the Morgantown
creamery and it is hoped that others
will read the following pertinent re-
marks on the subject by the Wheel
ing Register and ponder over them.
at is rather remarkable that in a
State SO we'll adapted to dairying as
West Virginia so little attention
should have been paid to it. At the
Agricultural Experiment Station DR..
Myers attempted to arouse some in
terest in this branch of agriculture
and succeeded in demonstrating that
the milk and butter business could
be conducted with profitiu this State.
The butter FROM the experiment sta
tion creamery was equal to the best
to be obtained in any market and
was used regularly and exclusively
upon the Presidents table in the
White House. 1t was produced prof
itably and the farmers who sold their
milk to the creamery made money
ON it,
Following the experiment station
creamery, several others were put in
operation in different sections of the
State, and everywhere they have
shown that they can be successfully
operated if the proper care is given
them.
But here the interest in dairving
has ceased. Half dozen creamer-
les at the outside are operated in the
State, and no substantial impetus
has been given to dairying. Some
of Preston county's people are now
engaged in trying to work up inter-
est in cheese, with view to the es-
tablishment of cheese factory.
Why this has never been done be-
fore is rather hard TO say. There is
a splendid profit in making cheese,
there is always a market for it and
the excellent pasture always to be
had in West Virginia makes the
State especially adapted to all kinds
of dairying. Up in Wisconsin, where
the soil is better for farming purpos-
es than it is here, hundreds of farm
ers have given up the cultivation of
the soil entirely and gone exclusive
ly into dairying. Two hundred cheese
factories are in operation there or
in the course of construction, each
using all the milk of from $50 to 500
cows. Figures from that State show
that the cows that were properly ia
ken care of netted their owners last
year from forty four to fifty dollars
each. In 1892 Wisconsin made over
twenty-five million pounds of butter
and more than fifty million pounds
of cheese.
This State is better situated, in
many respects, for dairying than is
Wisconsin. We have much milder
winters and pasturage lasts longer
every year than it does there. The
expense of keeping cattle through
the winter is much smaller here. We
have an abundance of fresh, pure
water, high and dry pasture land,
the finest blue grass in abundance,
and all that is necessary to make a
dairy pay is for some one who knows
how to take hold and start it.
The efforts of the Preston county
people should be encouraged The
farmers should interest themselves
and get this industry started in the
State. A correspondent of the Pres
ton county Journal, writing from
Wisconsin, paints pleasing picture
Of the farmers life out there and
gives the West Virginians good adj
vice in letter from which we take
the following paragraph:
"Stop blowing and turning over old
Preston's rocks and stones and watch
the cows that eat the luxuriant grass
that grows in no other country like
yours. Your land will be richer,
your purse will be full of gold, and
no one thing will ever help the West
Virginia farmer like the dairy. Any
thing to help the farmer, who pays
the taxes and does the hard work for
the world. All he has to do now
here is to watch the cows, drink good
buttermilk, sell limburger cheese
and loan money ON city real estate"
The picture may be somewhat over
drawn and the West Virginia farmer
who starts dairy may not begin at
once to loan his money out on city
real estate, but he will certainly find
more money in selling milk to cream
cries, in making cheese and butter,
than he will in raising wheat at 60
cents bushel."
The Democratic Party is Inn.
mortal
Only a few days before his death
in conversation with Mr. John P.
Kerr, editor of the Ashville IN. c.
Daily Citizen, who called upon him
at his residence in Washington, SEN
ator Vance used these words: "The