ADAPTABILITY OF MAINE TO DAIRYING. 



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Putting it all together to find the sura total of the dairy products 

 of Maine, we have of butter and milk sold if made into butter, 

 11,636,482X6,870,455=18,506,937 pounds of butter, at an average 

 of say 25 cents per pound=$4,626,734, and of cheese we have 

 1,152,590, at an average of say 15 cents per pound, which would 

 be $172,888^, or a grand total of $4,799,622^. 



We give below a table, showing by the census report, the num- 

 ber of cows, pounds of cheese and butter made, and also number 

 of gallons of milk sold in ten of the best dairy States. 



STATE, 



Maine 



New Ilampshiro. .. 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Khode Island 



Connecticut 



New York 



Pennsylvania 



Ohio 



Wisconsin 



Rank of Maine.. .. 



No. of 

 Cows. 



133 



94 



14() 



130 



18 



85 



931 



530 



544 



64 



,556 

 ,227 

 ,128 

 099 

 698 

 ,461 

 ,324 

 ,224 

 ,499 

 339 



5th 



Pounds of 

 Butter. 



11,636,482 



5,965,080 



17,844,396 



6,559,161 



941,199 



6,716,007 



107,147,526 



60,834,644 



50,266,372 



22,473,036 



6 th 



Pounds of 



Cheese. 



1,152,590 



849,118 



4,830,700 



2,245.873 



81,976 



33,626 



22,769,964 



1,145,209 



8,169,372 



1,591,798 



5th 



Galls, of Milk 

 sold. 



1,374,091 



2,352,884 



3,835,840 



15,284,057 



1,944,044 



3,693,021 



135,775,919 



14,411,729 



22,275,344 



2,059,105 



10th 



Without going into an analysis of the table, it is apparent even 

 upon a cursory examination that Maine appears as well adapted, 

 and is so proved by the returns, to dairying as any other State and 

 better than most. It must also be borne in mind that at the time 

 this census was taken, (1870,) based on results of 1869, Maine 

 had not a solitary cheese factory, hence does not snow in cheese 

 returns nearly as well as she would to-day. 



The grasses are peculiarly at home in our State, especially the 

 more common and more beneficial, and hence more valuable 

 ones. Not only are a great many indigenous to the soil and grow 

 with great rapidity and luxuriance, but the best English grasses 

 grow and thrive and yield a luxuriant feed or an abundant hay 

 harvest. The soil of Maine is such that nature can easily re-clothe 

 denuded spots, and grass grows everywhere, in the streets, in the 

 fields and pastures, in the valleys and upon the hills. Grass, the 

 most common and beneficial of all plants, and which furnishes 

 sustenance to all beasts we rear about the barn-yard. Ilerds-grass 

 or Timothy, red top in all its varieties ; orchard grass and sweet 

 vernal grass, Kentucky blue or June grass, fowl meadow and 

 blue joint, and the noble forage plants of the clover family are all 

 here perfectly at home, and as hardy and sure a crop as anywhere 



