Show DAIRY AND IOrJI1UY INTcnCSTINO CHAPTERS ron OUR nUllAL HEADERS Stow hrtral lutlnrri pent > This ltlaelmeot ot Iho llmiflf1 Illnll a to the Care 01 Ut cork and Iull ey I Leese In a Ittnntln stasdpnine lecently 1 went to Chicago to learn ivhat 1 could about Wisconsin cheese from the Chicago buyers standpoint I lOOn formulated a list of questions that I put to the different men lode prudently and was urprltrd to find such a uniformity In their answers write JW Docker Hoard Dairyman Dairy-man The Oiled cheese business naturally nat-urally came Into tho dlKuulon The leading firm said I I Vo handle filled roods not 1 > ecan o we want to but because be-cause no arc forced to Vfo kept out of It as long as wo could but wo have been obliged to handle the stud or go out of the cheese buslueii altogether for other firms quote cheese at a lower price than we can sell full cream goods for and we lure to meet their prices or not sell any cheese Ono firm however how-ever has gone Into the manufacture ot filled cheee and Is I operating some thirty factories eight atleast of which are In Wisconsin I hope the farmers will Instruct their legislators to shut them up without delay When asked what was going to bo the result If the filled business was not stopped tho unanimous reply was The ruination b ruina-tion ot tho cheese business Are tho farmers of Wisconsin going to stand by and allow this Wo need national na-tional as well as state legislation on the subject Wo hare ten men In congress I who can and will make things pretty hot on the subject at Washington If the farmers of tho state will only In slat on It One Chicago dealer raid I hare spent about 82000 In the last few yean to fight the oleo business busi-ness and I am getting tired ot pit tog money for that purpose when the farmers who take their mille to the factories fac-tories take home butterlno Instead of butter He mentioned a certain district dis-trict where that was quite generally done If wo arc going to down this filled business thin farmers must unite In the effort to down It h and as soon as they are united to a man tho legislators legisla-tors will not dare go against tho will of tho farmers for they would rather bo sure of their positions than the oleo mens money Ho much for the filled business The replies to my questions showed that thcru hat been a decrease In the make of cheese In Wisconsin In limo last I decade Ono buyer said that eight or nine years ago the offering oa the Iond du Iao board would be 8000 boxes and If he wanted 2 < KK > boxes ho could get them but now when tho offering are seldom sel-dom over 3000 and usually 1100 to 2000 he can not get what lie wants I asked him If the cause of amallcrof fcrlngs was not In the greater number of board at trade ho said no that he could not get the cheese I know that quite often a buyer has order to buy as many or more cheese than are offered of-fered on II board and It be goes into In-to scoop the board the other buyers will run the price up on him Our homo consumption has been decrea lag We ought to make cheese enough to supply not only our home trade bat the foreign us well Why should our Wisconsin farmers not share tho Kn gllsh cheese money that Canada get A dealer told me that ho shipped 4700 boxes to England and canceled orders for 4000 moro because lie could not get tho cheese One trouble tho buy era meet he I that our factories are small and they can not get largo even lots To make a bad matter worse a factory will make halt flats and half Cheddars or half flats and half Young Americas In order to get tho Cheddars tho buyer has to take the slats which he doe not want and ho probably cuts on tho price to coma out oven When the checso are sent to Kngland the dealer over hero writes back You sent us a lot of culls that you had on hand Wo want even iota Dont send us any more culUfor we can get even lots from Canada The buyer were unanimous saying that tho best nutty flavored cheeso come from northeastern and northern Wisconsin Southwestern Wisconsin has bettor equipped factories and more skillful makers but the more northern district seems to be endowed with tho I naturally I fine nutty flavors which cannot llyll I not bo surpassed anywhere In the world Creameries have been crowding I thin cheese factories out of this district I asked the buyer If any finer flavored butter could bo made there than elsewhere else-where and they said no I then asked where the finest butter came from and they were unanimous In saying and that without hesitation from the Elgin district dis-trict When asked what tho cause of tho better flavored butter was they were not so sure but thought It wo In the better ledlng nad care of the cows Northeastern Wisconsin Is I then preeminent pre-eminent In the cheese belt and we need have no fear of tho business being overdone The butter buslneucan bo but not so with the cheese business In tho fall of 83 at the close of the first season In a factory for myself In the ledge region near fond du Lac I sent cheese to the American Fat Stock and Dairy show and won over EOO In premiums but I believe now I did It through this fine flavored milk I was getting rather than In my skill asa as-a maker I havo been surprised since to find out how little I knew about cheescmaklng Northern New York Canada and northern Wisconsin mare In the cheeso belt Wo should not only drive out fraud goods but foster the business as Canada has done I bolo oar farmers will realize that they have been killing the goose that lay tbo I golden egg by making filled stuff |