Year: 1870

new ueNOClOn. Inc amount OF DuLIel


and cheese made in this country the


past season largely exceeds that o


any former year, while all other daiTy


countries have produced full average


crop in quantity, and at the same timC


there has never been known a demand


for your cheese so steady and full.
As fast as it became sufficiently


cured to justify its use, a remunera


tive market has been ready to swallow


it up without becoming clOyed, OF


asking for a IuinOus reduction in price


And now there is a general belle


among dealers and producers that the


supply of old will be we'll cleared Out
of market before new made cheese


puts in its appearance.


This result; following n production


so largely in excess of previous years


is attributed to the improved character
of your cheese, attained under the


happy combination of advantageOu:
circumstances, arising from the ever
and moist temperature of the season
and your we'll directed skill.


This humidity of climate and even.


ness of temperature of the summer


have been propitious in many ways


The evenness sOftemperatureh has ripen


ed the well made cheese with thai
steadiness so essential to sOlidity o.


texture and inspiring flavor. The


humidity of the climate, while un


favorable to the better growth o.


wheat and corn crops, has proved


most favorable to grasses by giving al
evergreen vegetation not unlike thai


which is the peculiar characteristic o.


the British Islands, where we NEE
our most formidable rivals in the
struggle for ascendency in the best


markets.


British agriculturists have known


well how to avail themselves of this
peculiarity of their climate and YOU
have shown yourselves apt in the use
of an occasional advantage of like
character. The mildness of the tenn.
perature and the inOppressives sun
shine have contributed to the comfort
of your herds and the bOunteOus Sc.
cretion of milk.


The frequent showers have prOvid.
ed, in addition 10 freshness of grasses
inexhaustable supplies of sweet and
pure water-while all the chemical
laws involved in the processes of youl
manufacture have been comparative
ly undisturbed by those extremes
which so commonly occur in our coun-
try, and the grand result has been an
unusually large quantity of purer and
sweeter favored cheese than you have
ever made before, and which has been
taken up with avidity at satisfactory
prizes.


Now what lessons may we draw
/ = Ia . hnn-
ness? These: That we shall find q
sure market for all the butter and
! cheese we are now making, If it be OF
character to sharpen the appetite in
stead of disgusting it-Of a character
to nourish and strengthen the body
/ instead of poisoning it-Of a character
to give confidence to those who deal
in it and those who consume il, in
stead of distrust. That foreign mark
cts will increase their calls upon you,
! while Americans will initiate the
Englishmen in making your cheese o
substitute for meat-instead Ofa relish
or expensive luxury to be INDUCED in
only upon rare occasions. That we
must devise means for securing the
most, even temperature of the curing
! house, which has been so useful to us
/ the past season, and that the draw
back arising from the dryness of our
common seasons must be Overbalanc-
ed by greater care through the entire
process of manufacturing if We con-
tinue these satisfactory results.
But the products of the dairy in our
country the past season, large as 1t Is,
is not the extent of its increase. AL
. though it has come to possess that ele-
ment of character which once claim
ed to crown cotton with kingly hon.
ors, that of transcending in an ag-
gregate value in dollars and cents any
other product of our country. Not
wIthstanding it has increased from an
aggregate value of $50, 900, 900 in 1850
to that of S400, ,e00, 900 in 1S69-an in
crease of about 500 per cent. in ten
years, still this is not the end of our
ability. A rapid increase will in all
probability continue for years to come.
The season of 1869 has been one of
unusual prosperity for American dali
rymen generally. Better prices have
prevailed than you dared calculate
upon at the opening. Instead of the
lower prices which you had prepared
yourselves to accept as a necessary re-
suit of the progress the nation was
supposed to be making in getting to a
specie basis, you have received a ma
terial increase over last years prices.


This has created the belief, if not
established as fact, that yours is the
most profitable branch of general farm
industry. Such belief, whether well
or ill founded, will result in further
increase of COWS and acres devoted to
their keeping.


1t Is already estimated by close OBJ
servers, that next years dairy pro-
duct will be third larger than of any
former year in those portions of our
country best adapted to dairying.


What we shall do with so large a
product, and how we shall maintain
its profitable production under such n
rapid increase, are neutrality-suspicious.
of serious moment, demanding your
study and deliberate decis-
ion.


Mr.. Webb of New York city, a
large shipper of American cheese, in !
a paper read before the American !
Dairymen's Association, states that |
the cheese of some important dairy |
sections of England has shown no |
improvement in character for seven |
or eight years, but has rather deteriO-
rated.


This he attributes to an indifference
among the dairymen arising from Il
feeling of independence and affiuence
growing out of their success.


They do not cOnfine themselves and
to the personal performance
Of the work as formerly, and less ia
results follow.


Having become "well to dO,n and
their reputation fully made
they, tried lying in bed all day and
while they slept Others were taking
possession of their markets.


You will see that this be not your
history. Your efforts for improve
ment will not be abated while advan-
.ages remain unimproved and diff
culties exist to be overcome.


Americans must be educated to a
greater use of cheese as an article of
1aily food. This is being done with
gratifying success.


The American Dairymen's Associa-
ion has made itself highly useful in
his field by offering last year the lib
sral premium of 500 for the best essay
lpon cheese as a wholesome, nutri-
,ious and economical article of food.
This proposal enlisted the attention of
scientific and practical men through
lut the country. The Eastern, the F.,
Middle and the Western States all en-
cred the arena for the prize, while (
Florida, extreme of the South, came
ID with spirit and ability and institu-
Oh q nnaritOriOus claim ThuS the .