The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-09-05

made on the farm, how much of it was
sold, and the same in regard to cheese.
Only few of the totals have yet been
completed by the census bureau.
Away back as far as 1879 large per
centage of the cheese was made on the
farms. In 1870 there was not a single
butter or cheese factory in St. Law
renee county, New York, but today
that county manufactures four million
pounds of cheese and three million
pounds of butter in her factories.
Even with the large increase of butter
factories, the production of butter
on farms increased 80 per cent during
the decade, while the production of
cheese decreased 81 per cent. The
butter made on the farms in 1879 was
III, 100000 pounds, and 100000 Of
cheese, while in 1889 the production
Of butter reached nearly 1,O14, 100000
pounds and cheese had fallen off to
less than 18,750,00O pounds. Making
a liberal estimate Of twenty-five pounds
of milk for one pound of butter, and
twelve and half pounds of milk for
one of cheese, we find that there was
used 2, ,47O 900, 900 gallons of milk in
1879, and 8, 1856, 900, 900 gallons in 1889
in the production Of butter and cheese
on farms. Taking the amount used in
1889 from the total production Of over
5, ,2O9, 100000 gallons, it leaves 2, ,023,-
OOO,O gallons of milk used in making
butter and cheese in factories, and
otherwise consumed. Granting that
increase in the amount of milk used
in butter and cheese factories was
much as the increase of butter made
on the farms-31 per cent--or the de-
crease in cheese land it must have
been fully as much if not more), and
we would find that about 689, 600, 600
gallons were used for this purpose.
This would leave about 1884 900, 600
gallons to be consumed in cities, vil-
lages and on farms, from the 7,OOO,-
900 milk COWS of the union. With a
population of 100000 this indicates
that an annual per capita consumption
of about eighty-fve quarts Of milk as
| whole milk. Adding FIVE quarts for
the milk produced by COWS in cities,
our milk trade is about ninety quarts
per capita, worth to the farmers $500,
costing the consumer SIS. This indi-
Gates that the producers get about
| $3.50, 100000 for the milk, which costs
the final consumer $50, 900, 900.
"The number of milk COWS shows an
increase in every section Of the union,
but the gain is greatest in the newer
parts Of the country. The increase Of
dairy products is not due alone to the
increase in the number Of cows, but
| also to their better care and feed.
| According to the figures given, the
average yearly production per cow is
but 3l53 gallons per head, or 2,682
pounds. Allowing twenty-five pounds
| of milk to pound Of butter, the yield
is raised to but 134 pounds. Progress
sive dairymen concede that there is no
profit in their COWS unless their yield
is brought up to 200 or 300 pounds Of
butter per year.
;In 1890 it required 1000 freight
trains, of thirty cars each, to move, the
product of this country. Iowa pro-
duced O,OOO,O 900 pounds, worth s2l,-
600, 900; Illinois 95,000,00O pounds,
and Wisconsin 45,0OO,0OO pounds,
worth s9,OOO,OOO The assessed value
| of COWS was worth, in 1889, $500, ,0O0,-
600, or more than the capital Of all the
national banks. The dairy product
exceeds in value the lumber, wheat
and iron of the country combined.
'!sThese. figures" concluded Mr..
Wing, "are dry, but they are eloquent
of the importance o. the butter and
cheese industry. 1t is possible to
bring into Georgia trade of $50, ,O00,-
600 to $50, 100000 annually. The ex-
periments we have made at the station
established every point in favor OF
Georgia, and now all we want is that
enterprising but careful men in every
community should inform themselves
fully, and thus be prepared to lead the
way toward this new era Of prosperity,
of which the COW will be the trade
mark.
One of the best informed men pres
ent was Mr.. M. L. Duggan, Of Linton,
who was elected secretary Of the asso-
citation.
"It was Governor Northen, he said,
"who first induced me to go into the
business. My father and the governor
were both schoolmates. When the
governor quit teaching, he had thir-
teen scrub COWS, with which he decid-
ed to go into the butter business. At
| the end of his first year he had gained
$50 from each cow. He paid $3.50 for
a Jersey bull, which paid him in a
short time over 81, 800. This was en-
couragement enough for him. | have
not onty made success in grading up
my cattle, and furnishing an excellent
article of butter, but I have yearly a
sale for every pound Of butter that | |
can produce. 1t requires personal
care, but the reward for it is much
better living than I could have ever
expected to make at the cotton or any
other business. hope to see the day
| when Georgia will export instead OF
import both butter and cheese.
Mr.. Duggan, happy and prosperous,
is a fair type Of what thousands OF OF
Georgians may become, if they will
but initiate his industry and intelli-
gence."
All hail the power Of butter and
cheese!
While in Chicago, Mr.. Charles