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the milk of fifty cows than the milk of ten ; and so it is compar- 

 atively little more to make up that of five hundred than of fifty. 

 About ten years ago, Jesse Williams, living near Rome, Oneida 

 county, New York, conceived the idea of turning this to practical 

 advantage by making up the milk of his neighbors into cheese, 

 together with his own. The plan worked well, and before long he 

 increased his facilities so as to make up the milk of four hundred 

 cows or more. Farmers are usually cautious, and slow in chang- 

 ing long established customs and practices, but the advantages of 

 this new notion were so evident and indisputable that gradually 

 similar establishments were set up, until when I was there last year 

 it was said there were ten of these "cheese factories" within a 

 circle of about ten miles. 



At the time of my visit the present year, the number was found 

 to be largely increased, and so recently had many of them been 

 established that it was not easy to ascertain with certainty how 

 many were actually in operation. From various sources, however, 

 a list was obtained of the following 



Rome, (Jesse Williams,) 

 do (Spencer Allen,) 

 do (Greenfield,) 

 do (Cady & Chandler,) 

 do (Crosby & Huntington,) 

 Delta, (F. Smith,) . . 

 Lee, (W. D. Sexton,) 

 do (Geo. Wood,) . 

 Lee Centre, (P. Charton,) 

 Florence, (Saveny & Coventry,) 

 West Branch, (Williams,) , 

 Westernville, (Hill,) 

 Verona, (Hill,) 

 do (Buck,) 

 do (Weeks,) 

 do (Durham,) . 

 Verona Centre, (Lampher,) .. 

 New Hartford, (Sherman,) . 

 Trenton, (H. J. Fowler,) . 

 do (H. Miller,) 

 do (W. W. Wheeler,) 



