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around them, if they find a little time for intellectual and social 

 recreation and improvement ? or if they so spare their strength 

 during the week that the Sabbath be not wholly used for physical 

 rest^and they be able to use its sacred hours for spiritual improve- 

 ment and for worship in God's house ? Oh ! my friends, pardon 

 me, for I have got to preaching before I thought of it; and you 

 will still pardon me for adding that I do believe, as I have seen 

 proved, that the cheese factory, to many a toiling, striving and 

 contriving mother or wife, has become a blessed means of grace. 

 This is not unworthy your consideration ; for surely it has been 

 the complaint in large dairies that the lady of the house wlio must 

 give the dairy her attention, becomes so wearied with her task and 

 so pressed for time on Sunday morning, that the Sabbath 

 ceases to be a rest and a joy. What matters it if you save a few 

 dollars, the cost of making at the factory ? Will it compensate 

 for all the drudgery and weariness they must endure ? But you do 

 not sane. And this is another argument in favor of the factory sys- 

 tem. I think it is plain that you do not save oven the cost of 

 making. 



Some private dairies make as good and as marketable cheese as 

 the factory produces ; but the majority of private dairies make an 

 inferior article. So that, on an average, factory cheese sells a cent 

 or two per pound higher than that of private dairies ; and this more 

 than covers the cost of making. It is reasonable that this should be 

 so. The system, the regularity, the superior facilities for curing, the 

 improved methods of making cheese, especially on a large scale, 

 render it almost certain that with equal skill a superior quality of 

 cheese will be made in the factory. Then add to this the advan- 

 tage in the market which a factory, with a large amount of cheese, 

 possesses, the uniformity as well as superiority in the qualit}^ of 

 the cheese, the ease with which you can adapt the size or style of 

 the cheese to a particular market or taste. And do you not see, I 

 say, that you will save, and not lose, by making your cheese in a 

 factory for that purpose ? 



And still another advantage of associated dairying is, the regularity 

 and reUabiUty of the returns. Every month, if you please, your bill 

 is made out, your account settled, and ordinarily your money paid 

 you. I have never known any losses. Your money does not come 

 to you in driblets, and consequently waste away, you scarcely know 

 how or whither ; j'ou generally know when to expect it, and you 

 can meet your obligations. And, another thing; it is cash and not 



