The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-01-09
Making Honest Cheese.

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It takes about two acres of fine land,
four hundred pounds Of fertilizer,
bagging and ties, toll, lots Of hard
work to produce one bale Of cotton.
The same land planted to cheese
will produce at least five hun
dred pounds of honest milk cheese,
that is made from pure cows
milk, cream and all together; this
cheese will not bound about like a
piece of rubber; it melts and crum-
bles in manner to be readily distin-
| guished from the common compressed
sold on our market as cream cheese.
What makes this vast difference in
products ? Cant good cheese be made
in South Carolina If not, why not ?
These rambling thoughts led the wri-
ter to inspect the new cheese factory
at Clemson College, where there Is q
nice outfit Of the improved appliances
for making cheese now in successful
operation by Prof. Hart, who has de-
monstrated the fact that as fine cheese
as can be produced in this country
can be made in South Carolina. The
flavor is really superior, and its rich
nutty cheese flavor at once sharpens
the appetite and calls for more certi-
fed honest cheese. While eating this
South Carolina cheese our. mind does
not roam from the crude oil tank un-
der the Southern cotton seed oil mill
to the dead hog, horse and COW rem
dering vats Of the West. Our mind
while eating this South Carolina cheese
wanders over the hills and valleys Of
South Carolina, along the banks of
| clean, clear water that flows through
the meadows and its honest flavor
| reminds us of fragant flowers and new
mown hay. After eating honest
cheese one can sleep and dream of the
| clean things (the Switzerland milk
maid, for instance) and rest in conf
dence; but when his stomach is load
| ed with chunks of the indigestible
compound called cheese, he is COM
pelled to kick and roll around at night,
dreaming of running from vicious bulls
and such.
We learn that it takes about one
gallon of milk to produce one pound
Of cheese, and the cost Of a small
cheese factory need not be more than
an improved cotton ginning plant; in
fact it seems that these two plants
might be run by the same power, as
the cheese making season is about
over with when the cotton ginning
season commences. What is the use
Of shipping cotton seed oil to the
West to be compounded into cheese,
and pay freight both ways, if our
market really demands this compound?
Why not send West or East for one
carload of improved machinery for a
cheese factory, instead Of shipping
thousands Of carloads of cheese ?
This freight alone would be a good
profit.
The only thing that is not at our
hand for making fine cheese is good
cheese makers. Good, industrious,
intelligent, honest and well-trained,
educated young men, suited to take
charge Of all such enterprises, are the
scarcest article in South Carolina.
And just here we ought to give the
board of trustees of Clemson College
due credit for their wisdom in setting
up a cheese making plant at Clemson
College,. where our boys may learn
cheese making.
Prof. Hart, in his forthcoming re-
port on cheese making in South Caro-
lima, will give the farmers complete
outline of making cheese, the cost,
etc.. and the best of all, he will tell
the farmer how to make small
amount of cheese at home with the
outlay of only about two dollars for
necessary machinery, which will be
far ahead of the old plan Of grandma's s
cheese press. Now don't all of you
readers write to Prof. Hart fora letter
on cheese making, for the man cant
spare the time from his work to write
so many letters; but every lady :an
write 10 the director, president Craig
head y for copy of the report Of the
experiment station on cheese making,
which report will be published proba-
bly, soon.
AS to the cost of producing milk for
making the cheese every farmer ought
to be able to make his own figures.
But one of the more striking features
in the change from cotton to cheese or
butter is that the fertilizer bill in
cheese and butter making may be left
out. The COW is the fertilizer factory,
and this is located at home, on cash
basis, and the proceeds from this en-
terprise is coming in all along the
whole season. There is no space Of
from ten to twelve months in this
kind of farming which has a broad gap
to be filled by liens and mortgages and
interest.
Another very great good for every
body that is interested in our pros
perity and the beautiful appearance
and permanent improvement of the
whole face Of the country is the re-
placing of grass upon the naked and
bare spaces; the soil will be preserved