The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-02
MAKlNa aiCNES7 CHEESE.
A South Carolina Factory in Operation.
What = Sensible Farmer SxJs.

A South Carolina Factory in Operation.
What u Sensfbls Farmer Sxys.
To the Editor Of the Cotton Plaat:
Four pounds of honest white and
clean cotton for one pound Of lathery
painted cheese.
It takes about two acres of fine land
four hundred pound o 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 ali together: this cheese will not
bound about like piece of rubber: it
melts and clumbles in a manner to be
readily distinguished fromthc common
compressed sold on our market as
cream cheese.
What makes this vast difference in
products? Can't good cheese be made
in South Carolina. if not, why not?
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
| raking 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 favor is
really superior, and it's rich nuttv
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
vats of the West. Our mind while
| eating this South Carolina cheese wan
de1s over the hills and valleys of South
Carolina. along the banks of clean
clear water that flows through the
meadows; and it's 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,
fo. instance) and rest in confidence;
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 takesabout one gal
lon of milk to produce one pound OF
cheese and the cost of 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
nlences. 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 compound2 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 tc
give the board of trussees of Clemson
| College due credit for their wisdom in
setting up cheese making plant al
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 a complete outline of making
cheese, the cost, etc.; and the best o.
all he will tell the farmer how to make
a small amount of cheese at home
with the outlay of only about two 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. Har
| for letter on cheese making for thu
imam can't spare the time from hi:
| work to write so many letters; but ev
cry lady can write to the director
| lPresident CraigheaO, for copy Of
| the report of the Experiment Station
on cheese making, which report vii
be published probably soon.
! AS to the cost of producing milk TO,
making the cheese, every farmer ought
to be able to make his own figures
| But one of the more striking features
lin the change from cotton to cheese OF
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 a 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 fo1
everybody that is interested in oul
prosperity and the beautiful appear
| ance and permanent improvement oi
| the whole face of the country is the
replacing of grass upon the naked anc
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 overfowing the bottom lands
Any farmer who has any thought car
see how this cotton farming has ruin
ed the whole country It is not nee,
essaly to point out these things now,
| the five cents pound will make every
! body feel. l have cotton several year:
| old and still have good appetite ant
| good home made cheese; tastes asgooc
! as it did when fused to eat it in grand
mas days. ]. G. STR1BLING.
| Pendleton, S. c.
A. :usta at Fever Heat.
| AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec 27.-Joe Murray
| the detective wounded in Sunday
shooting, died atnoon today. This !;