152 THE BEEF BONANZA. 



York alone had 1200 factories, manufacturing 100,- 

 000,000 pounds per annum. 



Dairying, from the earliest period in American his- 

 tory, has been one of the most certain and remunerative 

 ways of making money. Hardly a farmer's wife in the 

 country but has resorted to her milk, butter, and eggs 

 for pin-money. How many nice things in a good 

 countrywoman's house have been bought with " the 

 marketing?" Thread, needles, children's shoes and 

 stockings, aprons, pipes, and tobacco ; these are the 

 natural results of a good cow, as much as butter is of 

 cream. God bless old Daisy ! we owe her much, and 

 hardly a country boy or maiden but has worn her cloth- 

 ing as well as eaten her sweet butter. On a rented 

 farm, with a few good cows and skilful labor, there is 

 no surer way to comfort, and even to small fortune, for 

 the little family of the new beginner. Few people 

 know or can compute what colossal proportions dairying 

 has attained in this country in the last twenty years. 

 Enormous as the figures above given are, it would be 

 difficult to find more than half a dozen counties in the 

 whole United States where the supply of pure milk and 

 good butter is equal to the wants of the people. 



Franklin County, Vermont ; Orange and Herkimer, 

 New York ; Chester and Lancaster, Pennsylvania ; and 

 Kane County, Illinois, are about the only places well 

 stocked with good butter, cheese, and milk. Hardly 

 any other place of 3000 people can be found where the 

 supply equals the demand. Even in the centre of mil- 

 lions of acres of rich clover pastures, surrounded by 

 10,000,000 agricultural people, Chicago, in one year, 



