CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY BUTTER 
DAIRYMEN. 
Ciiatauqua Co., N. Y. Nay 26,1S78, 
tries, aud probably the largest 
threshing machine establishment in 
the world. 
The products of the Case works 
sustain the highest reputation, and 
the demand ran up to eighteen 
hundred uud forty-live threshers 
last season, not to mention horse¬ 
powers and one hundred aud nine¬ 
teen steam engines, which latter 
item will run over two hundred this 
season. Mr-. Cash commencod busi¬ 
ness in 1842 in Racine and has con¬ 
tinued steadily in the SRmo occupa¬ 
tion to date. As the transactions 
of the tirrn grew, partners were 
added, Mr. Case always selecting 
gentlemen who had been in hiB 
employ, thus securing the kind of 
talent and energy that was beBt 
adapted to the business. 
Details give, perhaps, the best 
idea of what a larire establishment 
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THE RURAL. NEW-VORK - r 
a press that meets its maker’s claims to being 
always ready for work within itself ; that can be 
moved from stack to stack quickly without 
waiting on steam or horse-power apparatus with 
ing his bread. To have butter worth the name 
one must use a good churn. Such an one is the 
“ Union” made by the Tiffin Union Churn Co., 
Tiffin, Ohio. Tho illustration we give needs no 
letter-press explanation. Tho “ moduB of the 
operandi” as has been said, is apparent. 
A word concerning the company : Shaffel 
& Baldwin in 1884 commenced making this 
churn in a small way, and had hard work in¬ 
troducing it to a prejudiced public. They 
kept right ou, and in 1875 sold out their in¬ 
terest to the present company of which A. C. 
Baldwin is president. The extent of tho 
business has commanded new and spacious 
brick factories, and at the present time there 
are upwards of sixty thousand of these 
< churns in use. These figures are more oon- 
^ vincing than words. Circulars may be had by 
' writing to the company. 
Chautauqua County, situated in the west¬ 
ern part of the Stato of New York, is not so 
much of a grain-producing, perhaps, as a dairying 
section. In tho way of manufacturing hue but¬ 
ter aud choose, wo think it only excelled by 
Orange aud Herkimer Couuties, which arc prob¬ 
ably the largest in the State. Chautauqua dairy¬ 
men are enterprising and oaeh one tries to ex¬ 
cel his neighbor in tho art of fine butter making. 
Many farmers keep an extensive dairy of cows, 
their butter receipts alone amounting to quite a 
large sum during a season. Farmerd are be¬ 
coming awakened to tho fact that a good cow 
can be kept as cheaply as a poor one, while the 
yield of milk aud butter is much greater. 
Much fine stock is thoreforo being raisod, and 
only calves from the host cows are kept, which 
is good economy. 
On account of the low price of butter at 
present, however, several dairymen have aban¬ 
doned the idea of butter making aud have gone 
into the manufacture of cheese, and a number 
of new factories have been started. Others 
still continue butter making believing it will ere 
long bo in good demand and bring a fair 
price. Chautauqua County butter is gener¬ 
ally known as A. No. 1, aud in most eases it is 
sold at good figures in market. 
Wore it not for the butter and oheese pro¬ 
duct some farmers would find it a difficult mat¬ 
ter to obtain a livelihood from oil their farms. 
Scarcely auy grain is raised but what is con¬ 
sumed at home, while a large quantity is im¬ 
ported from the great grain producing sections 
of the West, aud this is quite a heavy item of 
expense during tho year. Improved thorough¬ 
bred stock is boiug constantly added to the dairy 
of cows, and many believe that it pays to keep 
only tho best. 
Within the past few years, fruit growing has 
become quite an important part of farm indus¬ 
try, the apple crop of Chautauqua County 
amounting to several thousand dollars, last 
season—a great help to farmers in those hard 
times. The low price of butter this spring, 
together with the prospeot of a small crop of 
hay, has given many farmers the blues, al¬ 
though really they have little reason to com¬ 
plain. 
It is generally believed that as good an ar¬ 
ticle of butter aud cheese can be produced in 
Chautauqua Couuty as anywhere, aud more and 
more is being produced each year, thus inau¬ 
gurating an important branch of industry. 
M. L. Dorman. 
Jnimstrial Jmplcmfitts, 
THE CASE WORKS. 
The magnitude of the interests involved in 
the manufacture of farm machinery is strik¬ 
ingly illustrated iu a single instance,—the 
threshing machine works of Messrs. J. I. Case 
&, Co., at Racine Wis. The illustration shows the 
works as they are to-day—the chief 
feature of Racine's extended indue- _ 
T H K ERTEL PRESS. 
machines for the Pacific Coast—to which the 
State fair of California awarded the Gold Medal. 
Upwards of 400 men, with a pay roll of *20,- 
000 per month; with shops and warehouses 
covering 15 acres; involving a capital of over 
*2,000,000; consuming yearly 1,000, tons of iron 
3.000,000 feet of lumber, *50,000 for belting, 
*25,000 for paint, *50,000 for freight, *20,000 
for printing and advertising, *2,000 for postage 
stamps; with over 400 agouoies, extending 
throughout the breadth and length of the land 
are the items that command the time and at¬ 
tention of the four representative men of Ra- 
whioh to operate it; that is worked without 
gearing calculated to multiply friction, and that 
permits of the operator attending to his duties 
without tho aid of platforms and other cumber¬ 
some, stationary contrivances, is a desirable piece 
of agricultural machinery. 
The illustration showB the construction, and 
position of the press when at work. The levers 
are drawn in with a chain that is fastened to the 
power, working direct without pulley or shiove. 
One horse is hitched to the end of the sweep, 
and when pulling to tho right opens the press, 
and shuts it by reversing the draft to tho left. 
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THE UNION CHURN. 
cine, J. I Case, M. B. Ekskine, S. Bull and 
R. H. Baker. 
THE ERTEL PRESS. 
Mb. Geo. Ebtel of Quincy, Ill., has invented 
a portable, economical press, adapted to pressing 
hay, straw, moss, etc. The aim of the manu¬ 
facturer seems to have been to crowd into the 
smallost compass the most simple aud effective 
machinery adapted to the work. The result is 
that the “ Economy ” press operated by a man, 
a boy and a horse, will perfect upwards of sixty 
bales of hay in ton hours—bales running from 
175 to 220 pounds. The strong features of the 
press are its simplicity, portability, oompaotness, 
light weight (about 3,000 pounds) aud low price. 
Those having to do with the hay crop know 
that an attractive package has an additional 
value above the worth of the material; at least 
it iB so in the New York markets. Consequently 
When the levers are open a charge of hay is 
placed in the press, and a door shut which locks 
itself as it doses. This right and left motion 
of the horse is repeated until the halo is of the 
proper dimensions, when it is wired and thrown 
out and ready to be packed in a car. A box car 
will oontaiu from 110 to 125 bales. The size of 
tho bale in press is 19-23x36 inohes—a conveni¬ 
ent size. 
The “Economy” commends itself for the 
features above enumerated, and the fact that it 
has successfully stood the test of practical hard 
work. Mr. Ebtel will send circulars and com¬ 
plete information to those who desire them. 
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THE UNION CHURN. 
Of the tnakiDg of churns, like the making of 
books, there is no end, and it is well that it 
shou'd be so. The most hopeful sign of civil¬ 
ization is a man paying his debts, and butter- 
RUSSELL AND CO.’S THRESHER. 
The Improved Thresher turned out by Rus¬ 
sell & Co., Massillon, Ohio, should com¬ 
mand the attention of large farmers aud 
threshermeu. It is very simple in constrno- 
tion, has few parts subject to wear, does not 
require exceptionally skilled men to run it, and 
does satisfactory work in the large as well as the 
small grains. 
Its capacity is about one hundred bushels of 
wheat aud two hundred of oats per hour ; and 
its claim to superiority the ease and small cost by 
which this gratifying result is obtained. As a 
thresher is not so easily procured as a mower, 
for instauee, it needs no suggestion on our part 
to those intending to invest, that it is well to 
look before leaping; and the way to do it is to 
get all the circulars and information procurable 
before deciding. 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT STATION, 
New Haven, June 1, 1878. 
Bulletin No. 14—Fertilizer Analysis. 
132. Pine Island Guano. Manufactured by 
Quinnipiao Fertilizer Co., New Haven. 
Claimed 4 per cent. Nitrogen, 3.5 per 
cent, soluble and reverted Phos. Acid, 2 
per cent. Potash. Sampled May 13, by 
E. H. Jenkins, from lot in transit to 
purchasers. 
137. Stookbbidgb Formula fob Coen. Manu¬ 
factured by W. H. Bowker & Co., Boston, 
Mass. Claimed 5.75 per cent, to 6.50 per 
cent. Nitrogen, 3 to 4 per cent, soluble 
Phos. Acid, 0 to 8 per cent, total Phos 
Acid, 7 to 8 per cent. Potash. Sampled 
May 22, by Andrew’s Bros., Southington. 
139. E. F. Coe’s Ammoniatkd Sui'ERPhobatk, 
from J. B. Barstow A Co., Norwich. 
Claimed, available Phos. Acid. 9 to 11 per 
cent. Nitrogen, 2.1 to 2.9 per cent. Sam¬ 
pled May 24, by J. B. Barstow <fc Co. 
134. Muriate of Potash, from stock, of Geo. 
W- Miller, Middlefield. Sampled May 7 
by R. S. Hubbard, Middletown. 
138. Mubute of Potash, from Mapes’ Formula 
and Peruvian, Guano Co., New York. 
Claimed 5 per cent. Potash. Sampled 
May 22, by John S. Ivirkham, Newington. 
136. Ivory Dust. Sampled May 22, by L. J. 
Platt, Deep River. 
140. Peter Cooper’s Pure Bone Dust, from G. 
H. Glover, Branford. Sent May 14, by 
Killingworth Farmers’ Club. 
Nitrogen.4.85 5.89135 1.37 1.41 
Soluble Flies. Aciil.1.98 2.01 8.00 1 
Reverted.1.65 3.35 0.76 
Insoluble.1.35 1.33 l.’.U 12.43 26.10 
Potash.«3.29 *6.00 “IS.OS ”56,171 
Moisture. 160.61 
Calculated value .*34 01 16 87 34 in 36 02 17 74 32 33 41 S2 
Cost.*42 50 50 00 38 00 15 00+38 00 * 30 00 
•Potash is valued at 7Wcts. per lb. aud evidently 
too high. 
•• Potash Is valued at cts. per lb. In 13S potash, 
costs 3 0-10 cts. per lb. 
+ $3800 in N. V., $K> <10 in Hartford. 
i Is considered worth half as much as bone-dust. 
S, W. Johnson. 
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it requires to turn out eight com- 
THK WOIiltS OF 1 J. I. CASK Sc CO., RACINE, WIS. 
Fob a fanner to get rid of all his 
money, we know of no way more 
certain than for him to buy a Btock 
of dry goods and then attempt to 
sell them. This mode of procedure 
is both quick aud sure. We have 
seen many instauces of this kind 
and it has not generally taken over 
six years—sometimes less, rarely 
more. None but trained experts 
and those with a natural taste for 
the business cau permanently suc¬ 
ceed in selling dry goods. If this 
can be called experimental agricul¬ 
ture, we may add that there is no 
more need of repeating the experi¬ 
ment. 
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In the use of bone manure it is 
well to bear in mind that the more 
finely it is pulverized, the more 
quickly it acts. The effect of finely 
ground bone may not be uoticeable 
for more than two or three years, 
but a .quick return for the capital 
invested is made. Coarser bone may 
be far loss observable in its effects 
upon orops, but of course, those 
effects will continue much longer. 
plete threshers, and horse-powers per day; 
and annually two hundred threshing engines, 
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars’ worth 
of repairs, besides over two hundred heading 
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tive sections in order to be ready to rt ceive the 
Marshal on his round of inspection. Preseutly 
McMahon and his suite agaiu moved forward 
along the Street of Foreign Nations, pausing at 
each section to congratulate the Commission¬ 
ers, and, finally, after visiting several French 
industrial sections, he quitted the building 
amid loud cries of “ Vive la llepuhlique." 
The foreign princeB were escorted to their 
hotels by detachments of cavalry. 
After the procession had passed through 
the Foreign Sections, tho gates were thrown 
open to the publiu, aud the “Opening of 
the French Exhibition ” was a thing of the 
past. Trkber. 
