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niiinber of cheese factories iu the coiiutry has been doubled tliis year. 

 The number of cows, liowever, has not been materially increased, though 

 a good many have been diverted from butter making to cheese making. 

 In the older dairy regions, tlie increase in the number of factories has 

 not materially increased the make of cheese. The tendency is to 

 smaller factories and carrying milk shorter distances. Most of the ne^y 

 factories in Central and Northern New York divert patronage from older 

 factories, and absorb private dairies. In the western counties they 

 take cows from butter making. So also in the Western States, which 

 are this year making not only enough cheese for home consumption, 

 but are shipping quite freely for the first time to New York. It is 

 calculated that the new factories this year will add fully one-sixth to 

 the total make of cheese. Last year the weather was favorable, the 

 feed good, and the make the largest ever known. Beginning with a 

 bare market in the spring, we carried over 100,000 boxes, with which 

 we began the season this year. Notwithstanding the complaints of dry 

 weather in June, returns from three hundred and twenty-nine factories 

 in this State showed that up to the 1st of July the make fully 

 equaled that of last year. The yield at the present time is very large, 

 and promises to continue large. The quality is rather inferior to that 

 of last year, and there is justly great complaint about tlavor. We have 

 operated this year on a steadily though slowly declining market, which 

 promises to go still lower iu view of the hirge stock on hand, and the 

 probable heavy fall make. There can be no doubt that this year's 

 cheese crop will be the heaviest ever realized. A vastly increased con- 

 sumption will be necessary to keep ui) prices, a decline in which 

 would probably be the surest way ot increasing consumption, though it 

 would diminish profits." 



COTTON AND TOBACCO IN LOUISIANA. 



The first open bolls of cotton were brought into Iberia, Louisiana, July 

 10, others foUowiug in regular succession. The first bale of new cotton 

 was received at New Orleans on the 28th of July, an earlier date than any 

 since the war. It was from the plantation of John M'Allen, near 

 Brownsville, Texas. We annex a table of the first receipts at New Or- 

 leans, and tlie receipts to September 1, for a series of years, taken from 

 the New Orleans Price Current : 



Date of receipt of first bale. 



i Receipts 

 I of new 

 1 crop to 

 ! Sept. 1. 



Total receipts at rr. ^ , 

 New Orleans. ^°^^'- ^'^P" 



1857 — August 15 

 185S-Jiily 25. . . . 

 1859— July 28..-. 



1860— Juiy 5 



18(51— August 11. 

 1862— 



33 

 834 

 698 

 670 



61 



1863— September 7. 

 1864— Auitust 14... 

 1865— August 11... 

 1866— August 7... 

 1867— August [5... 

 1868— August 10... 

 1869— August 3... 

 1870— July 28 



133 



19 



476 



267 



3, 113, 962 



3, 851, 481 



4, 67.5, 770 

 3, 699, 926 



*3, 900, 000 



"*.566, 000 

 *800, 000 

 1,951,988 

 2, 430, 893 

 2, 261, 000 



^Estimatf . 



