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He has told ^•o^ that if yon would make your cheese factory here 

 pay you a larger profit, you must, first of all, contrive in some wa}' 

 to furnish the cheese factory plenty of milk with which to work ; 

 that you must hegin sending earlier in the spring, and continue the 

 supi>ly as late in the fall as possible ; in short, you must work the 

 factory to its full capacity, in order to obtain full rates of interest 

 on the capital invested. "Witli a larger supply of milk you can 

 afiTf)rd to employ more competent cheese-makers, and witli more 

 milk and a higlier grade of help, the product will be increased, both 

 in quantity and quality, while its character and reputation will go 

 far toward increasing the final net profits to be divided among the 

 patrons. 



I have fancied, as I sat listening to the speaker this morning, that 

 some of you may have thought to yourselves, that it is not half so 

 easy to double the quantity of milk sent to the factory, as to figure 

 out the increased profits on paper. Indeed, I have already heard the 

 remark since I entered the town, that the factory here can never 

 j-ield so good returns as do factories in some of the surrounding 

 towns, because the pastures here are too cold and wet in the spring, 

 and pinched by drought in autumn, or they have been depleted by 

 a long continued course of cropping without receiving any return for 

 the plant-food they have yielded up. I have fancied too, when 

 noting the preponderance of gray heads in this audience, that possi- 

 bly many of the young men of this region had lost confidence in the 

 ability of New England soil to support a famil}' in accordance with 

 modern ideas, and that many of the boys, who were bred on these 

 once beautiful hills, and along the banks of these musical streams, 

 have alread}' been captured b}- some western railroad director or 

 land speculator, and are now engaged in sapping the fertility of the 

 prairies, just as a former genei-ation sapped the once fertile lands 

 of New England. 



But I see some young men here, and some young women, too, 

 who, judging by the close attention they have given to the words of 

 the speaker, ai-e deeply interested in the subject which has been 

 presented and so ably discussed during the earlier session of the 

 day. 



It will be my airti this afternoon, to endeavor to point out and 

 illustrate one of the methods by which a greater amount of milk 

 can be furnished to the factory. I might urge the selection or* 

 breeding of better cows, or cows better adapted to the cheese dairy, 



