The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-09-05
BUTTER AND CHEESE,
An Industry Which Means Millions 10
Georgia.
atlanta Constitution.

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GRIFFIN, GA, August 25.-The two
men who have it in their power to dc
the greatest work of the year for Geor.
gia are President R. j. Redding, OF
the Georgia Dairy Association, and
Mr.. H. j. Wing.
If they succeed in making Of Geor.
| gia an exporter Of butter and cheese
they will have accomplished work Of
immense proportions.
One firm in Atlanta alone imports
during the season four carloads Of
cheese. This duplicated 100 times at
least by other merchants throughout
the State shows the outgo for the
single article of cheese, while the i'm
portation of butter is too great to ven
turn upon calculation.
"And not pound of either" said
Mr.. n. j. Wing, "but could have
been made right here in Georgia.
"Of the s35, ,OOO,O brought into
Georgia last year to pay for her cotton
CROP" said Commissioner Nesbitt
"fully SIG, 900 was sent out of the
State for articles of consumption. ]
could very easily figure out why it is
that by each new year there is not a
dollar left Of the s35, 900, 900, and that
we have left debts hanging over us
until next year.
It is the work of stopping up this
commercial crevasse that Colonel Red
ding and Mr.. Wing have addressed
themselves, and whether they will
succeed depends entirely upon those
who have the loss to stand if they fail.
The dairymen convention, which
met in this city on Wednesday, was
present in answer to a call issued from
the authorities of the experimental
station. Mr.. H. j. Wing is the dairy
expert at the station. The idea that
Georgia could produce her own butter
and cheese had its origin with Direc-
tor R. J. Redding.
"Several years ago." he said, sin
company with Colonel Felix Corput
| and others, I made trip through Ohio.
We noticed that the dairy section,
especially around Wellington, seemed
| to be the most prosperous part Of the
State. Not only those who owned the
dairies, but all those who lived about
them, had an appearance OF comfort
| not to be found elsewhere. The fact
that they dealt in a product which re-
ouired some skill, and that it brought
| in a continual flow Of money, had
stimulating influence on all other
kinds of business. It was a work
which extended to benefit over the
entire community. On our return we
decided that better use could not be
| made of the experimental farm than to
| test the making of cheese. We already
knew what we could do with butter,
| and if the same result could be attain
ed for cheese, then we would have
| opened up 4 business that could be
established on every crossroads of
Georgia. The stock industry is one
| of the best in which any people can
engage. More stock means more
| manure, more grass; then more grass,
| more manure, more stock. The dairy
business and the stock business are,
therefore, combined, and as q requisite
| for both, good farming is necessary. l
| have itfrom Professor Henry, of Wis
consin, that that State, smaller in area
| and population than Georgia, from six
months of the year, and 1900 miles
| away from a seaport, ships 81, 100000
worth of cheese to England annually.
Her weekly income from dairy pro-
ducts during the shipping season is
s5OO,OOO. The expert at the station,
| Mr.. 81. j. Wing. can give many more
| statistics concerning the possibilities
of the cheese market"
Mr.. Wing, native of New York,
and one of the men who rode with
Sheridan into Winchester, is dairy
| man of wide experience, ranging from
New York, through Ohio and Wiscon-
sin into Montana. He is an enthusi-
asst over the possibilities existing in
Georgia for building up an immense
trade in butter and cheese.
"The life of the nation,' he said,
"is more dependent upon the COW than
upon anything else. This may sound
| strange, but if you Withdraw the COW
from your markets, away with her
goes milk, butter, cheese, tallow, huff
| hoofs, horne, hides and hair. She
is money wherever you place her, and
even in death sheis not without value.
There is money made in dairying in
New York, Notwithstanding the fact
that the winters are sometimes so cold
that the hoofs freeze off the cattle.
| Neither New York nor Ohio have the
water supply that is found in Georgia.
They have to use windmills to pump
up their water, which often fails:
When one goes through Georgia and
sees the hundreds Of creeks and small
| rivers, he sees at once the advantage
YOU have in the way Of water. In
Wisconsin the blizzards are so severe
and disastrous that would not live in
the State if given the best plant there
as present. Here in Georgia you
can 90 in your shirt sleeves the year
round, you need but little shelter for
you stock, your water comes bubbllng
to you from its mountain sources, your
soil answers tc the touch, and, above
all, a fortune for which any other
State would give millions-your Ber-
muda grass cannot be estimated.
Here, then, is soil, water, climate,
grass, and it only requires ordinary
Intelligence in the man to produce such
commercial revolution as should
hesitate to describe to you. Green
food all the year around, and your OWL
port right here at Savannah.
"Another thing want to tell you
It is mistake to suppose that you
need blooded stock to start with. II
| the common scrub COWS of Georgia you
have today the best basis in the world
upon which to grade up. The jersey
is the best animal to cross with your
common stock. As butter producer
the Jersey cannot be approached. Al
the late worlds fair there were seven.
ty-fye Jersey COWS kept under test
| for three months. Their water anc
food were bought and paid for at city
prices. At the end of three month:
their product showed clear profit Of