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the market. Mr. Guruey described the diflference in labor better 

 than I can. As to the profit, I have found it much more profitable. 

 I kept an exact account one year, and my cows averaged me over 

 $100 apiece. I never realized near that when I manufactured but- 

 ter and cheese. 



There is one thing, however, to be taken into consideration. I 

 never could get the price for butter and cheese then that they 

 brought during the war, and do now. I have hauled many a load 

 of cheese to Portland, and sold it for eight cents a pound, and my 

 cheese was called as good as any that was carried into the market. 

 Mine brought as much as the Vermont cheese was sold for at that 

 time. 



In relation to feeding cows, I agree with Mr. Gold in every par- 

 ticular. To make my cows give the greatest quantity of milk, I 

 feed them on shorts. If I want to enrich my milk, I find that the 

 best article is cotton seed meal. I have given my cows corn meal, 

 but I find that they fat up too much. 



Question. How is it with beans and oats ? 



Col. Sweet. I have never tried them, and cannot say. I ha,^e 

 talked with men in Massachusetts who have produced milk for the 

 Boston market, and they say they are excellent. Barley and oats 

 some have told me are good. I tried them, but did not like them 

 so well as I did shorts and cotton seed meal. 



I admired the address of Mr. Gurney. I would say to 3'ou all, 

 brother farmers, I firmly believe that it is for your interest to form 

 an association here and get up a cheese factory. Within the last 

 two years I have talked with a number of men in Worcester 

 county, and they are all in favor of these factories. They say 

 they make money faster and more easily than they ever did in the 

 manufacture of butter and cheese in their families ; and it relieves 

 their wives and daughters of a great amount of hard labor. I am 

 firmly of opinion that if you establish a cheese factory in this 

 place, you will never regret it. 



Prof. Fernald. 1 am glad that, while collateral topics of in- 

 terest have been taken up and presented in so interesting a man- 

 ner, the leading idea of Rev. Mr. Gurney's address has not been 

 lost sight of-— that of the establishment of a cheese factory here in 

 Foxcroft or Dover, that sliall be a centre for all this region. I 

 really wish that the experiment might be tried here, and 1 desire 

 to advert for a moment to two points that were referred to by Mr. 

 Gurney. 



