Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-12-02
Or. HEsoM GIVES suaassrloNs.
An Intersssiaa Letter as to Stock Raising, Da-
| rylua and Manufacture Of Cheese.

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Winnsboro, November 3O.--The dis.
QUESTION Of the establishment of q cheese
factory at this point has brought forth
The following letter from DIR. Nesom. of
Clemson College, which was written in
reply TO communication asking him In
regard to the practicability OF such en-
ternsises In this section and which con-
ought TO be helpful ut this time when
there is o search for now enterprises for
the farm rs well as for the factory:
II am delighted TO hear that tho
prospects for cheese factories in your
section are good. have frequently
taken occasion TO remark that the prin-
Sipal reason. why farms all over the
value % they y>are In Fairfield county is
that our system of agriculture forces the
sale OF field crops instead of animal
products. III all that will do to feed to
animals were fed on the farms whore it
10 grown and the manure returned to the
soil poor lands would soon be a thing of
the past, for 1t should be remembered
uon are susceptible TO the highest state
OF fertiliEation. This is not true of
prarie and lime lands. Before we can
nave cheese factories we must have
plenty OF good dairy cattle, and before
we can keep THESE cattle economi-
cally we must have good pastures,
nay meadows and grain fields to
farm. Some things produced may be
exchanged for others, as tho exchange
OF cotton, cotton see6 and milk for cot
ton seed meal. Some seem to doubt the
ability OF South Carolina farmera to pro-
duce feed In abundance. For the bene-
ut OF the doubters will say that North
srn cattle man who recently visited this
Vl1fa th.nf 10 n I,
here and maintained at half what they
cost In the North. We have the three
requisites for any stock country, namely:
g good soil, warm climate and plenty
OF rainfall. There is no doubt that dairy
cattle are the most profitable of any
class II they are properly handled, and
ready market is found Tor their product.
Fhe dairyman near the citywhere he can
sell fresh, sweet milk gets most out of the
business, while those located in the
country and at small towns are forced to
resort to the manufacture of butter
ana cheese 30 as to get the products
in a condensed form to enable him
TO transport them to distant mar
kets at the cheapest possible freight
as much as the sale of sweet miik.
but when the cheese factory comes
along IT will pay as much for the milk as
1t will bringif made into butter and the
datryman is relieved of all tho trouble of
making and marketing tho butter. Ex-
perta claim that milk in this State will
make more cheese and better cheese than
the same amount of milk will in the
North. This is no doubt true and is
possibly due to the fact that much of the
milk here is gotten from Jersey and
other dairy breeds that give a rich milk
to; favorable climatic conditions and lux
uriant feeds. Dairy cattle in the rural
districts can only be made profitable by
using the dairy products in the manufac-
tnre OF butter or cheese, and If they
cannot be used it Is better to discard
them altogether and breed beef cattle,
30 that the animals themselves NAV be
sold ut profit for food"