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Btill further, whether he ought not to be disciplined, I mean agri- 

 culturally, for setting such a bad example. But, seriously, my 

 friends, this fast horse mania is the one grand stone of stumbling 

 in the way of successful dairying business in this region. Inau- 

 gurate the factory system if you can, and though fast horses and 

 horse fairs and horse trots may still occasionally be the rage, the 

 disease will be checked, and the hope will be that the raising of 

 fast horses will become, as surely it ought to be, subordinate to 

 the more legitimate, more profitable, and it seems to me the more • 

 fit and worthy business of the dairy. 



I have wished that I could place this subject before you as it lay 

 in my own mind, and that I could awaken an interest which would 

 lead to action ; and yet I acknowledge that I fear to urge in re- 

 gard to it. Should you take action and organize an association 

 and build a factory, many would be disappointed. Many who now 

 think they do well enough, whose wives make good cheese which 

 is sold readily at the highest market price, would very likely wish 

 to plod on in the old way. And then you would be bothered with 

 many little things ; some conscienceless, irresponsible person 

 watering his milk or skimming it ; many little things of this nature, 

 I say, and yet I do believe the day j'ou should set a successful 

 cheese factory in operation to accommodate farms that naturally 

 centre in these villages, would be the day in which these towns 

 would take the longest step ahead that they have taken for half a 

 century. 



T. S. Gold, Esq., of Connecticut, was then introduced, who spoke 

 upon the subject of 



Curing Milk for Market. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — The subject which I have 

 undertaken to present this evening is one which will not admit of 

 either poetry or eloquence ; neither do I possess the power, if I 

 should attempt it, to present it in that form. It is merely the sim- 

 ple subject of curing and preparing milk (or market, and as I have 

 had considerable practical experience fm- the last two or three 

 years in tlu; business, I thought it might be interesting to 3^'ju to 

 know something of the manner in which it was done. 



In the first place 1 will state my locality, the distance wc send 

 milk to market, and some other points of explanation. Wo are 

 situated on the Ilousatonic Railroad, in the noi'thvvest corner of 



