Year: 1870

OF the human DOuy. NulrlLlOuS, De-
cause a highly contracted compound
of the very elements of the physical
structure; and economical because ca
pable of supporting strength and Vi
tality in cases of severe physical labor
longer than most other articles of food,
meat not excepted, and economical
| also because when used with bread
and vegetables it utilities large pOr-
tions of their component parts which
would otherwise go entirely to waste
by affecting the equilibrium just allu-
ded to.


Cheese would prove economical
finally because by its general use the
/ prices of all kinds of meat must be


materially reduced.


When these facts are fully under
stood and respected by our own people
as they are by others-when the un-
rivaled resources of our country are
developed by the steady encourage
ment of all branches of manufactures,
drawing to our soil the oppressed but
skillful wOrkmen in European coun-
tries, furnishing familiar occupation
for all who may flee from the oppres-
sion of the old world to the liberties
and bounties of the new, diversifying
| the industries of our own ready hands
and resolute hearts, building up large
manufacturing cities in every State OF
the Union consuming upon our plains,
along our own valleys, and within our
own mines, the heavy products of our
soil, and saving the serious drains
upon our resources incident to their
transportation to distant markets for
cOnsumDtion.


Creating at our own thresholds that
large consumption of your products,
in proportion to population, which
now lies three thousand miles away,
then you will find that ability to take
your largely increasing production OF
cheese and pay for it such prices as
will afford remunerative returns.
We have already implied that only
small portions of our country are sffi-
ciently well adapted to the growth of
those sweet and tender grasses which
are essential to really fine flavor in
both butter and cheese.


! One of the New York papers (Tri-
bune) in a recent article upon this
point and in which is restated the
substance of an article published in
the same paper in 1857, says:


| "a line drawn north from Cincin-
natl, Ohio, will divide a hilly and
mountainous region on the east, from
the vast sweep of prairies which, with
slight exceptions in the hills of South
/ ern Indiana and Illinois, reaches to
| the head-waters of the Yellow Stone,
and the Platte.


The whole of the continent north
of the mouth of the Ohio is natural to
! grasses, but the grasses differ.


That in the east is tender and deli
eately favored, precisely fitted to
make cheese ofhigh flavor and butter
of excellent quality. East of Cincin-
er the prOpriety of buying more cows.


West of the line indicated the grass
es, though strong, are less delicate,
they will make better beef then cheese,
and when turned by Michigan plow,
they will give the mould from which
the finest crops of corn and wheat
can be grown.


Our great supplies will come from
the great prairies; they will continue
( to furnish the region which touches
| the Alleghanies with beef and bread,
but all the hilly country should more
and more devote itself to the milk
pail.


This we regard as sound and trust
worthy advice, and confidently be-
lieve the experience of the time will
demonstrate the general correctness
of the division"


You are all aware of the differences
in quality, in both butter and cheese,
produced by the character of the
grasses natural to different sections of
our country, and will eOncede that
skill in the manufacturer alone can
not overcome the defects in milk in
herent from unfavorable soil and
grasses, and that in all probability
only the most favorable combination
of all the essential points will insure
an adequate return for your work un
der the rapidly increasing production,
stimulated by the success of the past.


The soil and climate of the Western
States are not such as are coupled with
the best successes in quality ofcheese.


The peculiar characteristics of the
soils, the natural dryness of the eli
mate and the scanty supply of pure
running water, must, in our humble
opinion, forever remain a bar to the
growth Of those tender, delicious grass
es and abundant secretion ofmilk in
dispensible to delicacy of flavor and
remunerative yield.


We admit that they are capable of
producing in large quantities an aTti-
Gle of fair quality, and thatvery great
zeal is shown in the attainment of
skill in overcoming their serious
natural drawbacks. But when we
remember that only first qualities pay,
must we not conclude that the broad
prairies of the West must continue to
be the great producing section of bread
and meat for the nation?


The same conclusion, so far as COM |
petition with your labor is concerned, |
may be drawn from the natural pro-
ductiOns of the Southern States. v : |
need not go into an examination of |
the nOn-adaptatiOn of their soil and /
to the production of butterand
cheese.


Were the adaptation complete in /
every feature, they must in the future |
as in the past, devote themselves to |
the raising of the important staples of |
ton of which they have, by soil and
climte, almost exclusive adaptation,
and her diversion from which, would
involve the whole civilized world in
and distress, while in the
production of them she is
10 become wealthy and contribute her
important part in the full
development of the varied resources
1f our common country, and in secu-
ring the full measure of political and
independence so surely
Awaiting us as nation.