The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-01-03

october, 1899, Concluded.
Cheese Dairying as O Business in tIeors,.
IN experimenting in cheese-makinp
at the Station the objects in view NAV
DE stated as follows:
l. 10 determine by actual trial
whether our climate and other condi-
tons are favorable for the MAKING Of
cheese OF good flavor and good KEEPING
.. TO give such facts as would enable
q business man to determine whether
Ine business would probably prove a
pron1aoie new departure" in Georgia's
3. 10 give such information about
"DETAILS as may prove useful to those
wno may wish to engage in the bust
a. 10 furnish a convenient "School
o1 PRACTICAL Dairying" at the Station.
70 winch any young man or woman
nay resort Tor instruction in all the de-
Ials, under the direction of thorough
~ practical and experienced cheese and
butter-maker.
1t Is for the reader to determine for
himself, after reading this bulletin and
securing all the other information,
whether he will engage in the bust.
The sDirecter, or Dairyman, does not
ADVISE any inexperienced person to un-
oertake TO run cheese factory, even
services Of a skilled eheese-makeY. But
any man or woman, of fair intelligence
and common sense, may undertake to
make cheese on small scale with COM
Paraelvely little training. In press
Bulletin" issued from this station, Au-
gust Gath, 1893, the invitation was OK.
tended to any man or woman of fair
education who may wish to learn how
to make cheese" to visit the station for
that purpose. It was also stated mr..
wing says that in thirty days he can
teach such person how to make cheese
and butter according to the most sap-
proved methods.
1t was not said, nor can it reasonably
bear such construction, that an mex
perienced person, no matter how intel
ilgent, could be taught in thirty DAYS.
now to manage cheese factory.
IL is not the expectation Of the Board
OF Directors, or of the station, that
cheese factories will spring into exis-
Uence, as II by magic, all over the state
or that Georgia will in few years com
pete with New York, Ohio or Wiscon
sin, as cheese-making state. But the
idea was and is that the business NAV
begin in small way, first by individ-
uals making few cheeses for family
consumption then by increasing herds
ana the corporation of neighbors, the
industry would grow more extensive.
ana tnus gradually would be enlarged
until cheese dairying shall have be-
come an established and important in
duStry.
In the meantime there Is no insur-
mountable obstacle in the way of the
success OF regular cheese factory.
wherever there is a neighborhood of
farmers, within five or SIX miles of a
common center, who control an aprre-
gate OF fifty to one hundred good cows,
small factory may be organized. The
services of an expert cheese and butter
maker can be had for not more than
forty or fifty dollars a month and
board, through the season, with the
condition that he shall teach one or
more young men the art. The first
years operation, especially of so small
dairy, would probably not prove very
profitable, but success would follow
persistent effort and enlarged opera
tons. The business would REQUIRE
push and energy, as well as intelligence
and skill, and business methods, Just
as these qualities are required in any
business and everywhere
Good pastures is one of the most i'm
portant preliminaries to successful
milk production. Our own Bermuda
probably can not be excelled as a past
ure grass. The station is now expert
menting with silage, having filed a
we'll constructed silo of the capacity of
seventy tons With good, nutritious
ensilage for winter use, abundant
pasturage, and forage for greensoiling,
in summer, our native cotton seed meal
supplemented by oats, bran. peavine
hay, etc. there need be no scarcity of
food.
1t should have been stated elsewhere
that the profits of milk production
whether converted into cheese or but
ter, depend very largely upon the Judi
cious saving and using the manure from
the cattle, and the feeding of pigs and
poultry on the whey and buttemiYk.
1t will probably be well to furnish
here list of thu articles comprising a
cheese dairy outfit.
Outfit for Twenty Cow Cheese Dairy.
seventy.fve gallon self-heating cheese
Q one and tnree-fourth inch press sorews 90
twelve inch upright cheese hoop...,.. / 90
young America cheese hoops ........:. / so
six blade perpendicular curd knife see. 20
! four inch horizontal curd knife .......... 2 10
pint graduating glass. ,... ........,. rs
curd scoop. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80
upper Observation-Disclosures. Is
pldtIorn scale. .'..'................... 90
press rings. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. rs
l cheese trier... Observation-Disclosures. so