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Now my friends it is so. . To make the best butter and cheese 

 you must have the sweetest feed, the purest water and air. 

 Everything must be sweet and pure about the dairy. How can 

 you have this amid the miasma of dense swamps and rich bottom, 

 lands. Everything else being the same — i. e. with the same skill, 

 wisdom and experience in the manufacture, you always may lead 

 the market in butter and cheese. And there will be never a 

 danger of a glut in the market of the best quality of dairy pro- 

 ducts. More and more cheese, as well as butter, is getting to be 

 and is felt to be a necessity. It has been considered a kind of lux- 

 ury -f but it is coming to be viewed as more than a luxury. It is 

 understood to contain all, or nearly all, the essential elements of 

 food for the entire physicial system of bone, muscle, nerve and 

 brain ; that it is nearly all food, and consequently that it is eco- 

 nomical as an article of common diet; that the poor as well as the 

 opulent can afford its common use. You know how it is among 

 us ; our own little market is never supplied with good, ripe cheese. 

 So it is, I doubt not, throughout the State. Instead of exporting 

 it as we ought largely, we have to import it. Is not that the 

 same folly as carrying coals to Newcastle, or as it would be to 

 carrry wheat to Wisconsin, or sugar and cotton to Mississippi ? 

 You have wealth in your streams and waterfalls ; but still greater 

 wealth, if you will use it aright, in the sweet pastures of your hills. 

 Your distance from market is no objection. You are but a few 

 miles from tide water, and thence by shipping anywhere you 

 please. There is no reason why you should not make as good 

 veal here, and get it into market nearly as cheap, and conse- 

 quently make it pay nearly as well, as they do in central Massa- 

 chusetts, and I know they make it pay there ; and the better veal 

 they make, the better they make it pay ; and thus have done away 

 with the barbarous custom of flinging the carcasses of your two or 

 three days' old calves to the hogs and dogs. 



But, again we hear it said, We have no factory. Well, factories 

 don't grow ; they are built, and you can build one if necessary. 

 Let every farmer of moderate means take a hundred dollar share, 

 and pledge himself to stock his farm with cows and send his milk 

 to the factory ; and many who have small farms' can afford to take 

 the same share, for. the cheese factory is comparatively a greater 

 benefit to the small farmer with his three or four cows than to the 

 larger one. There is no doubt if you are in earnest about it, that 

 you can build a first class factory that shall be an ornament and an 



