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ROUGH NOTES BY THE WAY.—NO. 1. 
“ I believe the highest price paid for dairies in New 
York, for several years past, has been paid for seve¬ 
ral dairies from Chemung county. Being at the ta¬ 
ble of a well-known gourmand, in New York, in 
the spring of 1847, I remarked the very fine quality 
of the butter- he replied that such butter could not 
be made out of Orange county. The conversation 
continued till, finally, the original firkin was brought 
up, when I found it was branded John Holbert (pre¬ 
mium), (Mr. Holbert resides in Chemung county, 
and took the first premium at the State Fair at Sa¬ 
ratoga, for the best butter made in June). This 
gentleman told me, he had his supply of butterof this 
dairy for several years, at an extra price of 33 cents 
per pound, of a particular grocer, who alone sold it. 
“ The opinion of the gentleman, who has the charge 
of the butter department of the United States Navy, 
‘ that no butter, made out of Orange county, will 
resist the action of tropical climates,’ I know to be 
erroneous. A dairy, made in this county (Broome), 
has been sent abroad much of the time for ten 3 r ears 
past. In 1839, it was sold in St. Croix, to the 
government, for 75 cents per pound. In 1840, it was 
sold in New Bedford, and went a whaling voyage. 
I saw some of it after the expiration of nearly four 
years from its manufacture, as sweet , and in as good 
condition, as when made. The same dairy has 
since been sold in New Orleans, in Natchez, and 
Mobile, and there has never been any complaint as 
to its quality. I shipped some butter that was the pro¬ 
duct of this county, to Canton, in 1846, which, under 
very disadvantageous circumstances, opened as fresh 
as when made, and proved so good, that the shippers 
have each year since applied to me for butter, for 
cabin stores for their ships. I took up the original 
firkins, and procured a quantity of small white oak 
kegs, which would contain from 15 to 25 pounds, 
each, and repacked the butter, selecting the best 
from a large quantity. These kegs, when filled, 
were put in very large hogsheads, and the space 
filled with rock salt, and placed in the hold of 
the vessel. This butter was sold about eighteen 
months after its manufacture in as good condition 
as when made. The small kegs were not used in 
reference to the preservation of the butter, but 
merely for convenience of retailing at Canton. 
“ The exportation of butter for the supply of the 
different cities, that are along the southern coast of 
Asia, is probably destined to be a very considerable 
business. The entire supply for the immense 
cities in the possession of ihe British East-India 
Company, being derived from Europe (mostly 
from Ireland, but some little from Holland), is 
usually purchased at home at a price which would 
fully pay an American shipper at its destination. 
“ The relative proportion of our county, that is 
adapted to the production of the finer qualities of 
butter, is probably as small as any other article of ge¬ 
neral necessity ; but much of the southern tier of coun¬ 
ties and also of the central and northern portions of 
the state of New York, will, when well cultivated, 
produce the variety of grasses necessary to give 
butter the peculiar flavor and aroma of Orange 
county, when properly manufactured. 
u The emigrants from Orange county, before al¬ 
luded to, all agree in opinion, that as good butter 
can be made in their new localities, as in Orange 
county. Minisink is cited, in the circular, as being 
the locality producing the best butter in Orange 
county. A Minisink dairy woman, in this vicinity, 
who had the reputation -for many years of beingthe 
best in that town, made her first dairy here, of about 
60 firkins, last season, and says it was the best 
she ever made. All the Orange, county emigrants 
agree in opinion (and many of them are persons of 
much experience and close observation in their busi¬ 
ness), that in favorable situations, they can pro¬ 
duce as much butter, and of as good quality, as in 
Orange county.” 
ROUGH NOTES BY THE WAY.—No. 1. 
On a recent tour through New Jersey and a 
portion of Delaware and Pennsylvania, I met with 
a few facts and incidents, which I thought might 
be interesting to your readers, and have a tendency 
to elicit inquiries that might lead to results benefi¬ 
cial to other parts of the country, which, for want 
of information, lie in a dormant and unproductive 
state. I intended to extend my journey to the ex¬ 
treme end of New Jersey, to Cape May; but finding 
the weather very warm, and 'that I should have to 
travel through a very sandy, and, in some respects, 
an uninteresting country, although I have been told 
that some part of it is highly cultivated, I concluded 
to defer my visit to that region till some future 
period. 
I shall commence with Salem, in New Jersey, 
situated on Salem Creek, 3| miles from Delaware 
Bay, and 37 miles south-westerly from Philadel¬ 
phia. Through this stream, steamboats and other 
vessels pass from the waters of the Delaware up to 
the town, where I spent a short time with Col. 
Robert G. Johnson, from whom I obtained the fol¬ 
lowing statistics of Salem county for the year pre¬ 
ceding June, 1846, which he collected with much 
industry, and at considerable expense, and commu¬ 
nicated the same to .the New-Jersey Historical Soci¬ 
ety, and which I believe were published in their 
Proceedings, in 1847:— 
EXPORTS OF SALEM COUNTY, N. J. 
“ I send to you, for the information of the His¬ 
torical Society of New Jersey, the Statistics of the 
estimated annual exportation of the surplus articles 
produced by the labor and care of the people of the 
county of Salem. 
I will here remark that the county of Salem con¬ 
tains about 300 square miles, and the population, by 
the last census, was ascertained to be 16,024. 
Grain , Feed , fyc. 
Wheat, - - 68,919 bush, at 90 cents, 
Corn, - - - 386,254 “ 50 “ 
Oats, - - - 174,574 “ 31 “ 
Buckwheat, - 6,000 “ 60 “ 
Rye, - - - 2,322 «« 60 “ 
Hay, straw, husks, broom corn, - - 
$62,027.10 
193,127.00 
54,117.94 
3,060.00 
1,392.00 
- 28,400.00 
$342,124.04 
Meat from Live Stock. 
Fat cattle, 880 head, average weight per head, 
575 lbs. at $5 per hundred, - - $25,300 
Pork in the hog, 600,000 lbs. at $5, - 30,000 
Calves, 4,450 head, at $4.50 per head, - 20,025 
Sheep, 4,000 head, at $2, - 8,000 
$235,38 
