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£3.00 PER YEAR. 
Single No., Eight Cents, 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
•tl Park How, iVcw York., 
S2 ItuIVnlo St., Rochester. 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY OCTOBER 16,1663 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by D. D. T. Moore, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.] 
long, and three stories high above the base¬ 
ment. The manufacturing department is in 
the basement, and the curing rooms above. 
On the first floor above the basement, a liv¬ 
ing room, bed-room, pantry, ifce., are finished 
off as apartments for the manufacturer. The 
building was erected by a Stock Company, 
at a cost of some $0,000, including heater, 
vats, presses, &c. It was intended as the 
central establishment, on the branch system. 
is a gravelly or clayey loam, with clay subsoil 
interspersed witli limestone ledge. Nearly 
every farm lias one or more springs, still 
many depend upon well*for their water. 
The soil here is well adapted to raising 
wheat, barley, peas, Ac., and is an excellent 
fruit-growing sectiou, some farmers having 
from ten to twenty acres of orcharding. It 
is considered a fine grazing district, although 
more subject to drouth than the more uneven 
could be made a source of profit—that to 
plow and cultivate less land, and by keep¬ 
ing from ten to fifteen cows to the hundred 
acres, better results could be readied than 
by grain growing alone, since the coarse 
fodder could bo consumed on the farm, and 
the land more easily kept in fertility, while 
at the same time the farm could be made to 
yield good profits. To carry out this idea 
a cheese factory of course became a neces- 
running nearly through the center of the 
county East and West,, which affords many 
cold springs of water, and the lands north 
of this ledge to the lake arc very productive. 
Mr. E. It. Sanborn, a gentleman whose 
business enterprises and social relations form 
a very prominent feature of the village, and 
from whom we obtain the leading facts in 
this article, states that good farming lands 
here are worth from seventy-live to one 
hundred and ten dol- 
lars per acre ; that 
some who have lln ash- 
^ = ed their wheat claim 
.-rX ■ to have raised this 
year over forty bushels 
!<■ tin' acre, and th.-ii 
~• - -1 i \ one of the patrons of 
year over fifty acres of 
over twenty bushels to 
■ — the acre, and has kept 
-i_i_— ~ — =5 also twenty cows on 
aS ~ 1 _. ' '_ = the larm, which COn- 
died and si\I\ m i 
Anotlii’V^ palrm i \v 
wheat, over seven 
?•’ ~j r | hundred bushels of 
oats, lias fifteen acres 
of corn, ami twenty 
Wh acres nf orelmrdibg. 
, Tim number Of pat- 
7*. y rons at. 1 lie Sanborn 
a ! factory is twenty-six; 
j and during the month 
wu .~ milk to make a pound. 
.(,,. of cheese was only 
about 9.00 pounds, a 
” each weighing fifty 
--pounds; and on tbo 
17lli of July sales were 
made at fifteen and 
three-fourths cents. 
Persons In new districts w T ho arc contem¬ 
plating the erection of cheese factories will 
gel useful suggestions from the cuts which wo 
give of the Sanborn factory. The Millar 
Heater is used at this establishment and gives 
good satisfaction; but any other style of 
heater can be used without, altering the 
general plan of the manufacturing depart¬ 
ment. x. a. w. 
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IMPROVED CHEESE FACTORIES, 
The Sanborn Factory and the Dairy iu 
(•ruin (trowing Sections. 
We are in receipt, from time to tune, of 
communications asking for plans of cheese 
factories of approved 
construction, where ^ 
con venienee and econ- 
omy have been stu- 
died. The original fac- / 
tories of the country / ~ ~ 
were rude affairs, with- l— - - - 
out much regard to j ~— - - y~T 
taste in exterior struc- /rr 7-r~ ~ 7 r 
ture and often not very 
convenient in internal if 
arrangement, 
lias been a very mark- L — 
ed improvement in g 
s< >m* • of the factories 1 agj.- 
rccrnlly erected, and ^ - pS 
thiHime is e.lining, we 
mad'' models ofbeau- 
gitmttds, so a- to be 
the chief ornaments of : - • 
the neighborhoods in ||j| __ . _ ~ 
which they happen to ~ ~ b. _ - \ 
W e believe that 
great good would re- r== ir * 
their surrounding- 
since as taste is (level- 
agine. A great and 
pressing necessity in - - —. 
connection with dairy- 
ing is for clean, sweet, 
wholesome mi lk, and a >_ 
in reformlii^*th& un- ^^ - —— 
clean practices of pat¬ 
rons than constant 
preaching about cleanliness, with slovenly 
factory buildings and dirty, unattractive sur¬ 
roundings. 
There is truth in the old adage that “ ac¬ 
tions speak louder than words;” and this, 
we believe, is quite as applicable to dairy 
matters as in other directions; hence we 
hail the growing taste to improve factory 
buildings as a sign that genuine and perma¬ 
nent improvement is being made in the dairy 
products of the country. 
We give an engraving, illustrating the 
Sanborn Factory, w’hieli is quite neat and 
tasteful in its outward appearance, and is 
conveniently arranged in its manufacturing 
department, as will be seen from the sketch 
showing the ground plan of the establish¬ 
ment. The drop in the floor, where the sink 
runs on rails, is an improvement over the 
old factories, and is adopted by those estab¬ 
lishments that have introduced the shute. 
In some eases the drop is two and a half to 
three feet lower than the main floor. 
The Sanborn factory was erected in the 
fall of 1007, and is the only cheese factory as 
yet built in Niagara county. Tlie building 
is thirty-six feet wide by seventy-five feet 
A.IST IMPROVED CHEESE D'ACTOKY 
The milk from some two hundred and 
thirty cows is delivered at this factory, but 
it has capacity for manufacturing the milk 
from several hundred cows. Two vats only 
are in use the present season, but there is 
room for two more, as will be seen by refer¬ 
ring to the ground plan, where four are re¬ 
presented. 
Sanborn is a small village on the New 
York Central Railroad, nine miles east of 
Suspension Bridge. The farm on wli Lch the 
railroad depot stands was purchased iu 1864, 
and cut up into village lots, and now has a 
hotel, two stores, a gristmill, the usual num¬ 
ber of shops and the cheese factory, the en¬ 
graving of which as here given is a good 
representation. 
The Surveyor of the Ship Canal reports 
Sanborn as situated on the highest point of 
land in Niagara county. The surface of the 
country in this section is rather level, al¬ 
though sufficiently undulating to readily 
drain. A branch of Cayuga Creek runs 
within three-quarters of a mile of the village, 
and a small stream passes near the factory 
which empties into another branch of the 
creek. The character of soil in this vicinity 
>A r r SANBORN, NHVW YORK, 
or hilly sections. Large crops of grass, how- sit.y, and no pains were spared that it should 
ever, are often obtained. The farmers of be constructed in accordance with tbe most 
this section, somewhat recently, got the approved plans. 
notion that the dairy and a mixed husbandry There is a ledge, or mountain, (so-called,) 
ABOUT BUILDINGS, 
I had a barn thirty-two by forty-four, 
with sixteen-leet posts, and I noticed a farm¬ 
er across the road had added to his barn a 
lean-to at each end, one of which was for 
horse stalls, at tbe other end a hog house and 
cow stable. The improvement looked so 
well to me that 1 thought I would do the 
same to mine, only for different purposes. 
I therefore put one up to each end of my 
barn, with ten-feet posts, so as to have a lit¬ 
tle stoi’age room overhead for hay, as one 
was to be for sheep and the other for cows. 
I found that about two tons of hay each 
would be all they would hold, and that it 
DESCRIPTION OP GROUND PLAN. 
A, Platform for receiving milk, half outside of building, and four feet, above basement floor. B, 
Millar vat and healer. C. Fire room. J), D, D, D, Millar vat, 000 gallons. E, Whey spout, level 
with basement floor. F, F, F, Fifteen presses. G, Drop below main floor. II, Conduit for slop 
water; floor descending each way thirty inches from main floor. 7. Cellar for family use. .7, 
Cistern. K, Main floor, 22x50 feet. L, Sinks on castors. 31, 31, M, Doors. W, W, H r , Windows. 
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