1864. 



ISTEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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STATISTICS OF CHEESE FACTORIES. 



The following statemeuts arc from reports made 

 at the late Cheese Manufacturers' Convention at 

 Rome ; • 



Alfred Buclc's Factory, Vernbn, Oneida Co. — 

 Number of cows, 470, for six months ; 145,695 

 pounds cheese made; 10 10-100 pounds milk 

 made 1 pound dr^- cheese ; cheese sold for 13 

 cents per pound ; the cost of boxes, bandage, salt, 

 &c., 40j cents for 1(X) pounds; price charged by 

 cheese maker (he furnishing his own hei^)) for 

 making cheese, $1 per 100 pounds — making whole 

 cost $1,401. 



Williams, Adams & Deicey^s Factory, Hampton, 

 Oneida Co. — Nunit>er of cows, 350 ; pounds of 

 oiilk, 976,378 ; pounds of cured cheese, 95,959, 

 sold for $I2,279.'T3; 10 pounds 2 ounces milk 

 made 1 pound cheese ; price of making cheese, at 

 •Si per 100 psunds, $959.59 ; incidental expenses, 

 $386.92; total, 81,346.51. 



Wkiiesboro' Factory, Oneida Co. — Number of 

 eows, 650; eight mouths milking; number of 

 pounds of milk was 2,122,855 ; number of pounds 

 of cheese, 207,313 ; sold for 12 cents and 88-100 

 per pound. Thirty cords of wood used, costing 

 $90 ; 3 tons of coal, costing $24. Expense of 

 bandage, salt, boxes, &c., 45 cents per 100 pounds ; 

 shrinkage of cheese 4 per cent. 



Clark's. Factory, Vernon., Oneida Co. — Number 

 of cows (not reported ;) pounds of milk, 955,915 

 for four months ; number of pounds of cured 

 cheese, 101,094 ; number of pounds of green 

 cheese, 107,083 ; 9,399 pounds of milk for 1 

 pound of cured cheese ; expense of boxes, &c., 

 40 cents per 100 pounds cheese. 



Miller's Factory, Coiistableville, Lewis Co, — 290 

 cows ; 971,515 pounds milk ; 100,089 pounds 

 cured cheese. Net sales of cheese, $11,011.64 ; 

 9 7-10 pounds of milk for 1 pound of cured cheese 

 — the amount of shrinkage was 6 17-100 per cwt. 



Deerf.cld and Marcy Factory, Oneida Co, — 700 

 cows; 1,949,215 pounds of milk ; 193,335 pounds 

 cheese ; 10 82-100 pounds of milk, 1 pound of 

 cheese; cheese sold for 13 611-1000 cents per 

 pound, delivered at Utica. 



Loiovilh Factory, Lewis Co. — 600 cows; 1,763,- 

 934 pounds milk ; 172,162 pounds dry cheese ; 

 shrinkage, 8,754 pounds ; cheese sold for 13 7-10 

 cents per pound ; cost of bandage, boxes, &c., 43 

 cents. 



Georgetown Factory, Madison Co. — 435 eows ; 

 1,538,204 pounds of milk; 156,911 pounds of 

 cheese ; 9 5 pounds of milk for 1 pound of cheese ; 

 shrinkage, 3i per cent j cheese sold for 12^ cents 

 per pound. 



Moisture in the Air. — One of the most cu- 

 rious and interesting of the recent discoveries of 

 science is, that it is to the presence of a very 

 small proportion of a watery vapor in our atmos- 

 phere — less than one-ha'.f of one per cent. — that 

 much of the beneficent effect of heat is due. The 

 rays of heat sent forth from the earth after it has 

 been warmed by the sun, would soon be lost in 

 space, but for the wonderful absorbent properties 

 of these molecules of aqueous vapor, which act 

 w'ith many thousand times the power of the atoms 

 of the oxygen and nitrogen of which the air is 

 composed. By this means the heat, instead of 

 being transmitted into infinitude as fast as pro- 

 duced, is stopped or dammed up, or held back on 



its rapid course, to furnish the necessary condi- 

 tions of life and growth. Let this moisture be 

 taken from the air but for a single summer night, 

 and the sun would rise next morning upon a 

 "world held fast in the iron grip of frost." 



THE. BOTTOM OP THE SKA, 

 Our investigations go to show that the roaring 

 waves and the mightiest billows of the ocean re- 

 pose, not u])on hard and troubled beds, but upon 

 cushions of still water ; that every where at the 

 bottom of the deej) sea the solid nbs of the earth 

 are protected, as with a garment, from the abrad- 

 ing action of its currents ; that the cradle of its 

 restless waves is lined by a stratum of water at 

 rest, or so nearly at rest that it can neitlier wear 

 nor move the lightest bit of drift that once lodges 

 there. The uniform appearance of those micro- 

 scropic shells, and the most total absence among 

 them of any sediment from the sea or foreign 

 matter, suggest most forcibly the idea of perfect 

 repose at the bottom of the deep sea. Some of 

 the specimens are as pure and as free from sea- 

 sand as the fresh-fallen snow flake is from the 

 dust of the earth. 



Lideed, these soundings almost prove that the 

 sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a calm, 

 is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these 

 minute shells ; and we may readily imagine that 

 the wrecks which strew its bottom are, in the pro- 

 cess of ages, hidden under this fleecy covering, 

 presenting the rounded appearance which is seen 

 over the body of the traveller who has perished in 

 the snow storm. The ocean, especially within and 

 near the tropics, swarms with life. The remains of 

 its myriads of moving things are conveyed by cur- 

 rents ; and scattered and lodged in the course of 

 time all over its bottom. This process continued 

 for ages, has covered the depths of the ocean as 

 with a mantle, consisting of organisms as delicate 

 as hoar frost, and as light in the water as down in 

 the air. — All the Tear Round. 



Grub in the Head. — It ha^ang been stated in 

 the Brandon, Vt., Record, that a disease is making 

 alarming havoc among the large flocks of sheep in 

 Rutland County, insomuch that farmers are un- 

 willing to admit the full extent of its fatality, which 

 in some cases it is said amounted to scores, and 

 even hundreds, on single farms, — the Woodstock 

 Standard, of last week, gives the following remedy 

 recommended as almost infallible by a farmer who 

 has used it repeatedly : 



Take yellow snuff, in the proportion of one ta- 

 blespoonful to a tea-cup full of water, and steep 

 till a good strong liquor is produced. Inject a 

 tablespoonful of this liquor into the sheep's nose 

 once a day as long as necessary. 



To Clean Silk. — Quarter pound soft soap, 

 one ounce honey, one pint gin. Put on with a 

 flannel, or nail brush, and afterwards brushed with 

 cold water, then dipped in cold water five or six. 

 times, and hung out to drain, then ironed {wet on 

 the wrong side) with a hot iron. 



A JOKER suggests that a photograph album is 

 too often made the receptacle of empty mugs. 



