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and industry ; that it aflbrds our wives and daughters respite from 

 hard toil, and opportunity for domestic, social, intellectual and re- 

 ligious improvement and recreation ; that by the factory system, 

 in a pecuniary view, nothing is lost, but there is a saving rather ; 

 that thereby you have a regular and reliable income ; and lastly, 

 that it benefits almost equally the whole community, disseminating 

 and increasing wealth over the whole town, rather than centraliz- 

 ing wealth in our villages and building up great fortunes for the 

 few favored ones. 



In presenting these considerations I have not gone much into 

 details. I have not presented facts and figures. I have given 

 you the cream of the facts and the essence of the figures. I think 

 I can sustain every point I have made, every argument 1 have ad- 

 vanced with facts and figures. The details 3'ou can have at any 

 time in a multitude of publications; for the dairying business is 

 having its literature. It is becoming indeed more and more every 

 year a science of itself; it is a prominent department in our agri- 

 cultural boards and fairs ; is a branch in our agricultural colleges ; 

 and associations, large and small, are formed and meetings held in 

 its behalf. 



But before I conclude I wish to notice a few objections which 

 lie in the minds of many to the success of the cheese factory : And 

 first, the one great obstacle and almost bugbear in many minds is, that 

 the BUSINESS IS BEING OVERDONE, or ts in danger of being overdone ; 

 that the supply will be greater than the demand. Did you ever 

 know the time when this cry was not raised against every busi- 

 ness ? And yet cheese — first rate cheese — such, alone, as you can 

 and ought to make, is and will bo always in demand. Of such 

 cheese there is not, with all the increased facilities for making, a 

 full sui)ply. The market is enlarging and the demand is increas- 

 ing faster than it can be produced. You can make better cheese 

 in these northern regions of sweet air, sweet water and sweet 

 pastures, than they can make south or west. God and nature have 

 given you the advantage in these regards. I met a n)an a lew 

 years since returning from the west to the green hills, the pure air, 

 the sweet water, of his native Vermoiit. lie looked bilious, 

 cadaverous, and shaky generally, lie declared that everything 

 was bilious in the west. The pork, the cheese, the butter, the 

 beef, the air and the water — everything was bilious. And oh I 

 how he seemed to expand and brighten as he touched the soil and 

 tasted the water and breathed the air of the green hills again. 



