DAIEYDfG IS AROOSTOOK COTJXTT. ^57 



DAIRYIXG IX AROOSTOOK COUXTY. 



Br J. B. Xelsox. VTrsTHROP. 



The interest of dairying is not a new one. That it is a 

 subject worthy of the most candid and thorough examination 

 by the farmers of this county, I think need not be urged at 

 this time. Aroostook possesses many advantages fitting it 

 eminently as a dairying region. It comes within the oft-men- 

 tioned dairying belt ; it offers the most favorable conditions 

 for the keeping of dairy stock, and the manufacture of cheese 

 and butter ; its fertile fields afford an abundant supf)ly of food 

 for the winter needs of stock ; and its summer pasturage is so 

 luxuriant and continuous from the departure of the snow in 

 spring until it falls again in autumn, that dairying, as a 

 specialty, where transportation is available, must, if rightly 

 managed, be a lucrative business. Her long winters are 

 favorable for winter butter making, which is at the j)resent 

 time being successfully adopted by very many of our most 

 prominent dairymen. Her summers offer a somewhat short, 

 but favorable season for the manufacttire of cheese. That 

 the quality of her cheese is most excellent is shown in that 

 sent out by the Xickerson factory at Houlton, which is 

 equalled by very few factories in Maine. Its good quality 

 consists in its fat as compared with that made at the Winthrop 

 factory. The main difference is in richness. Xow this is due 

 in part, and perhaps entirely to a difference in cows. With a 

 strong infusion of Jersey blood into the herds of Aroostook, 

 not only could you make the best butter, but the best — ^the 

 richest — cheese in the world. Xevertheless, if the growing 

 of stock for beef and the general market is the main object 

 aimed at this infusion misrht not be desirable. Bv having: 

 your cows come in milk in fall and earlv winter, winter 



