g^g BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



honor to these towns and a source of steady income ; and you can 

 become a kind of radiating centre, as you ought to be and are in 

 some things, to the county and region in this matter of associated 

 dairying. 



But have we after all cows enough to supply milk sufficiently to 

 make profitable a cheese factory ? One thing is doubtless true, the 

 larger your factory the greater your profits ; and you ought to aim 

 to have the largest supply of milk possible throughout the season 

 from April to December. You have cows enough within a circuit 

 of five miles from these villages as the centre, to supply a large 

 factory. It is estimated that already there are kept within those 

 limits fourteen hundred cows which give milk, and within an easy 

 distance about nine hundred. It is not too much to say, consider- 

 ing the many farms which are not one half or even one quarter 

 stocked with cows, that the number of cows could be easily doubled 

 and would be with a successful factory in operation at any point 

 within these villages ; so that easily from 2000 to 3000 cows might 

 be kept within a convenient distance of any point in these villages 

 as a centre. 



But, the trouble, the expense, the change, the additional labor, &g. 



Yes, if you have a dozen or twenty cows instead of two or three, 

 which you mostly need for your own supply, you must expect some 

 more labor in the barn-yard and the barn. You cannot afford to 

 ride quite so much perhaps behind that fast horse of yours as you 

 now do, and perhaps, if the truth must be told, you cannot now afford 

 to do it; and that, really, that same horse is an expense to you. 

 You must be up betimes in the morning, that your milk may be 

 into the factory in season, and that will be a blessing to you-, and 

 then your boy must be on hand to start off with the milk, that you 

 may have the whey for the hogs on his return, and Sally wants her 

 letter taken to the office, and Betsey is expecting a letter in return, 

 and Jane wants her bonnet at the milliner's, and mother thinks she 

 will ride down with you to do a few chores, and neighbor Small- 

 farm, whose milk you carry, has an errand for you at the store; 

 and ]\Irs. Goodheart, whose milk you carry, wishes to send a few 

 eggs and a chicken to poor widow Soldiermau who gave her all to 

 her country. And with these chores, by the time the team comes 

 back the dew will be off the grass, and the bay must bo opened, 

 and the mowing machine must rattle through the tall grass; and 

 60 it goes. Well, you must not expect to be idle — much. And 

 the expense, — Yes, cows, good cows, milking cows, broad and high 



