1849. 



THE GENESEE PARMER 



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CHEESE FACTORIES IN ASHTABT7LA CO., OHIO. 



The editor of the Conneaut Reporter has been out 

 rusticating) and gives Borne interesting items touch- 

 ing dairy operations in thai section. He says such 

 is the large and growing demand for cheese and but- 

 ter, that where a few years ago two or three cowson- 



ly were kepi, the Bame OCCUpantS now number lh- i r 

 40, 50, and 60 COWS — and at, tins time there is an 

 increase of quite one-half over the number last year. 

 It appear e from the editor's statement that a nev. 

 tern of che< so-making has been successfully estab- 

 lished, consisting of "Cheese Factories," as they 

 are termed, lie thus speaks of two of them now in 

 operation in the midst of the heavy dairies: — 



C. C. Wick, Esq., of Wayne, one of our most 

 enterprising and business men, has recently erected 

 his buildings and put in operation his " dairy," for 

 the manufacture of cheese. He commands the pro- 

 duct of l,J0O cows, owned in that and adjacent 

 townships, and employs men and teams, who every 

 morning take prescribed routes varying from five to 

 ten miles each, and gather the " curds," which are 

 neatly sacked by the dairymen, and then brought to 

 the factory, where the process of u cheese making" 

 is completed. 



This furnishes employ for a large number of men 

 and women, and by the aid of recent improvements 

 and machinery, much of the labor requisite is ren- 

 dered light, more convenient and simple than the 

 usual mode. He had last week about 3,000 cheese 

 on hand, made within about thirty days, and for beau- 

 ty and fine flavor, they are not to be excelled. The 

 weight of "curds" daily received, amount in the ag- 

 gregate to some 3,500 lbs., and the number of cheese 

 made daily about 75, varying somewhat as regards 

 size. They are put up in sacks, and intended for 

 the English, West India, and California trades, 

 and vary from 15 to 35 lbs — the former, we believe 

 are intended exclusively for the California market. — 

 Wayne has long held a reputation for producing 

 cheese equal to any other township, and friend 

 Wick intends that the products of his dairy shall 

 bear impress of being equal if not superior to any 

 that have been sent from this country. In addition 

 to this there are many large and fine dairies among 

 the farmers. At Richmond, Merriman Barber, Esq., 

 has another " Factory," and situated so as to com- 

 mand the daries of that town, Dorset, Andover, and 

 a portion of Cherry Valley. He receives the pro- 

 ducts of about the same numder of cows, and makes 

 about the same weight of cheese daily, and carried 

 on in the same manner of Wicks , but his cheese 

 are more uniform in size, averaging 26 or 27 lbs., 

 each — are put up in the best possible manner, and 

 will command the highest rates in the home or for- 

 eign market. 



By the adoption of this system, it is made advan- 

 tageous to the farmers, as they contract in the spring 

 for their " curds," which continues for the season, 

 and are thus enabled to estimate very nearly their 

 amount of resources, without reference to a fluctua- 

 ting market. The prices paid for curds the present 

 season is 3| cents per pound, deducting therefrom 

 the expense of teams for gathering, which receive a 

 stipulated sum. 



True glory consists in doing what deserves to be 

 written — writing what deserves to be read, and ma- 

 king the world happier and better for having lived in it. 



PEAS AND PEA BUGS. 



I!. Y., in the March number of the Farmer, says: 

 u We would like to know what advantage A. 1 1. pro- 

 mises himself by keeping peas corked in a bottle for 

 two years. The objection to sowing buggy peas is 

 not thai tli num- 



bi r must I"' utterly im ignificant, but thai the bug de- 

 stroys the genu," Stc. To this I reply that in my 

 article in the I' bi tiarj nun bi r, I had bow i 

 the garden in my mind, and not field peas— and that 

 1 do not recognize the truth of II. V's assertion that 

 the number must be "utterlj insignificant." II' .-own 

 early it is nearly i qual to one bug to a pea, and if it 

 is worth while to get rid of one curculio \\ ith a plum, 

 it is worth while to get rid of one bug to a pea. I 

 am not sufficiently acquainb d with the natural history 

 of the pea bug to know if it is propagated in anv 

 other way — if not, by destroying the entire brood for 

 a year, we would diminish the number, and by a se- 

 ries of experiments would get rid of the evil. It 

 would of course require more seed to be sown of the 

 peas kept for the first two years, for the bugs would 

 have destroyed some of the germs; but no bugs 

 would be resown for future multiplication, and instead 

 of the pea bug spreading from the garden to the field, 

 if all would try the remedy, in a few years we should 

 have peas without bugs, as they were formerly. 



I last year sowed three kinds of peas, to determine 

 which was the earliest variety. They were the Prince 

 Albert, Landreth's Extra Early, and the June Peas. 

 They were all sown on the 28th of March. The 

 first two were gathered for the table on the fifteenth 

 June, and the last on the twenty-third June. The 

 Prince Albert appeared to be about one day earlier 

 than the Extra Early; but the Extra Early is the lar- 

 gest, and of the two I should think the best variety 

 for general culture. 



This year I sowed on the 31st March two rows 

 Extra Early peas side by side, the seed in one being 

 taken from the largest and earliest pods of last 5 

 crop, and the seed of the other from peas taken when 

 the vines were pulled up at the close of the season. 

 The difference is very manifest, the vines of the first 

 row being, at this time, full three inches higher than 

 those in the second. 



Meadville, Pa., May, 1849. A. H. 



The two Systems of Farming. — Under a low 

 standard of agriculture, the object of the farmer is 

 to collect the natural produce of the soil with the 

 expenditure of as little money or labor as possible. 

 But under a high standard he does not grudge ex- 

 pense of labor nor of manure, in order to obtain a 

 proportionate increase of produce: and he studies to 

 obtain this by cultivating crops congenial to the soil 

 by growing them in such order that its natural pow- 

 ers shall be turned to the best advantage. — Selected. 



The Earth is the great nursing mother of all plants; 

 they in their turn minister, directly or indirectly, to 

 the nutrition and sustenance of animal life; the lamb 

 and the kid feed upon herbage, the direct growth of 

 the soil : the wolf and other of the carnivora feed 

 upon the lamb and the kid — thus they derive their 

 food indirectly from the soil. 



The deeper the soil is made, the deeper the roots 

 can go in search of food. 



