The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-03-16
CHEESE MAK|NG
IN GARFIELD CO.
LARGER PROFITS AND LESS LA
BOR THAN IN HANDLING
MILK OR BUTTER
Mr.. AND MRS. WILEY PIONEERS
Frisco Railroad Plans Special Dairy
Train Tour Of the state.-com-
parison Of Cheese and
Butter.

The project Of cheese making b.
the farmer, instead of making butter
OF selling milk and cream, which was
started ia Garfield county By Mr. and
Mrs. }. r. Wiley, is spreading all over
the state and is attracting notice
from many other states far removed
from Oklahoma.
A special series OF demonstrations
given by the Wileys early In the iall
has induced many farmers to take up
the making OF cheese and all OF them
are having marked success. Instead
OF making the milk into butter to be
sold at the village store, or 70 the
produce man, or separating the cream
with an expensive machine and carry
ing IL to market each day, the Wiieys
make cream cheese fOr which they
find a ready market at any store and
for which there is always a demand
as soon as customers become accus-
toned 10 IT, The work Of cheese max
ing with the simple home apparatus
is sa.d by Mrs. Wiley to be less than
half as difficult as that OF making
butter. and the surprising point OF
the whole matter is the fact that the
milk made into cheese brings more
than twice the profit on butter or
cream
Conditions at Enid where the VIII
eys began their cheese making. are
similar to those to be found in any
city Of similar size or village OF
much smaller proportions. A large
quantity OF cheese Of the common
American cream cheese variety, is
imported, usually from Wisconsin or
New York This cheese costs at
wholesale a little more than 20 cents
pound and retails for 25 cents.
Forty percent Of the cheese say Enid
merchants. is sold TO farmers, and
there is constantly increasing de.
maE.. for cheese as in many menus
It is coming to take the place Of
meat as a solution of the high cost
OF living The market, therefore, for
this cheese Is always to be found.
The Wlleys sell their cheese for 20
cents a pound and it is retailed there
for y cents a pound and preferred
in quality by many people to the 25-
cent grade which is imported
Cheese and Butter Values
The Wileys supply the following
i figures as 10 the relative value OF 100
! pounds Of milk made into cheese and
made into butter One hundred pounds
OF milk win make from ten to twelve
pounds of good cheese or about four
pounds of butter. rarely more The
ten to twelve pounds OF cheese. will
bring So or $225, while the butter
has been selling in Enid most Of the
winter for 10 cents a pound or at the
most % cents a pound, which would
\ mean from 80 cents to 81 for the but
\ ter Such a comparison makes it very
evident that the cheese is twice as
i remunerative as butter. and Mrs
4 Wiley accentuates the idea that it is
more easily made.
The cheese as marketed by Mrs.
\ Wiley is usually in ten pound blocks.
1 that being the amount made each day
on their farm Each cheese is marked
with The date on which it is made.
and after being Kept TO ripen for u.s.
ually six weeks, Is sold The date
\ enables the buyer 10 select a very
fresh cheese, or an older one. as mis-
taste dictates
The Wileys live on an oklahoma
farm Of $50 acres. The cheese has
, been as much OF a side product as
butter making on small scale VS.
ually is on other farms and il is this
application to the ordinary farm
which they insist would ioGole the
profits to the ordinary farmer from
the small herd Of COWS usually kept.
That it is Just as applicable to the
/ larger dairy farmer who keeps more
cattle is shown by the success Of a
farmer near CARRIER who has large
herd Of Jersey cows and who has sold
cream for many years This farmer
is 5w realizing twice The profit from
his milk since early last fall he be-
gan making cheese according to the
Wiley method
Interest in the Wiley experiment is
so great that the Enid chamber Of
/ commercs has taken up the subject
with the Frisco and the agricultural
commissioner Of that road is coming
to Enid TO interview the Wileys and
consider the expediency Of sending
ont a special dairy train with them as
demonstrators and lecturers.
Evans Joins the Katy
W W. Evans. for fve and hals