The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-02
MAXINE HONEST CHEESE.


A South Carolina Factory in Operation.
What Sensible Farmer Says.
To the Editor of the Cotton Plant:
-Four pounds of honest white and
clean cotton for one pound of lathery
painted cheese.
1t takes about two acres of fine land
four hundred pound of fertilizer, bag
ging and ties, toll, lots of hard work to
produce one bale of cotton.
The same land planted to cheese
will produce at least 500 pounds of
honest milk cheese, that is cheese that
is made from pure cows milk, cream
and all together; this cheese will not
bound about like piece of rubber; it
melts and crumbles in, q manner to be
readily distinguished fromthe common
compressed sold on our market as
cream cheese.
What makes this vast difference in
products2 Can't good cheese be made
in South Carolina, if not, why not2
These rambling thoughts led the writ
er to inspect the new cheese factory at
Clemson College, where there is nice
outfit Of the improved appliances for
making cheese, now in successful op-
Grafton by Prof. Hart, who has dem
onstrated 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 ap-
petite and calls for more certified hon
est cheese. While eating this South
Carolina cheese our mind does not
roam from the crude oil tank under
the Southern cotton seed oil mill to
the dead hog, horse and cow rendering
watts of the West. Our mind while
eating this South Carolina cheese wan
ders over the hills and valleys of South
Carolina, along the banks of clean
clear water that flows through the
meadows; and its honest flavor re-
minds us of fragrant 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 confidence I;
but when his stomach is loaded with
chunks of the indigestible compound
called cheese, he is compelled to kick
and roll around at night, dreaming of
running from vicious bulls and such.
We learn that it takes about one gal
lon of milk to produce one pound Of
cheese and the cost of a small cheese
factory need not cost 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 COM
mences. What is the use of shipping
cotton seed oil to the West to be COM
pounded into cheese, and pay freight
both ways, if our market really de-
mands this compound9 Why not
send West or East for one car load Of
improved machinery for cheese fac
tory, instead of shipping thousands of
car loads of cheese. This freight alone
would be-a good profit. The only
thing that is not at our hand for MAX
ing fine cheese Is good cheese-makers,
good, industrious, intelligent, honest
and we'll trained, educated young men
suited to take charge of all such enter
prises are the scarcest article in South
Carolina. And just here we ought to
give the board of trussees 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 report on cheese max
ing in South Carolina, 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
a small amount of cheese at home,
with the outlay of only .abouttwo dol
lars for necessary machinery which
will be far ahead of the old plan of
grandma's cheese press. Now don't
all of you readers write to Prof. Hart
for letter on cheese making for the
man can't spare the time from his
work to write so many letters; but ev-
cry Lady can write to the director
president Craighea6, for copy of
the report of the Experiment Station
on cheese making, which report will
be published probably 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 is this kind of
farming, which has broad gap to be
filled by liens and mortgages and in
terest. Another very great good for
everybody that is interested in our
prosperity and the beautiful appear
ance and permanent Improvement of
the whole face of the country is the
of grass upon the naked and
bare spaces; the soil will be preserved
instead of being washed from the
higher lands in the steams, thus doing
damage, skinning the higher lands
and causing the streams to fill with
sand and overflowingt the bottom lands.
Any farmer who has any thought can
see how this cotton farming has ruin
ed the whole country. 1t is not nee
essary to point out these things now,
the five Cents q Mound WI make eYerY-