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ress can be made towards improvement will naturally 

 develop itself more rapidly here than among persons scat- 

 tored over a broad extent of countrj", and who are so occu- 

 pied with a variety of work as to have little time to spend 

 in the improvement of one particular branch. The most 

 important advantage to farmers in tliis union arrangement, 

 is the relief from the drudojerv of cheese makino;, and the 

 constant care and attention necessary in properly curing and 

 fitting the cheese for market. It would be diflBcult to esti- 

 mate this in dollars and cents, since health enters into the 

 account more largely than is generally suspected. As the 

 same process has to be gone through with, in manufacturing 

 cheese, whether the quantity of milk be large or small, and 

 as nearly the same time also is occupied, it will be seen that 

 what requires the labor of a great many persons to do, when 

 cheese making is divided up in families, can be accomplished 

 with but few persons in the factory system, some five or six 

 being sufficient to do all the work about an establishment 

 manufacturing the milk of a thousand or more cows. The 

 question is frequently asked, is the factory system destined 

 to stand the test of years ? Is it to continue to prosper, or 

 will it not soon break up -and dairymen return again to the 

 old order of cheese making. In my opinion it is to live. 

 Tlu! Fystem. is a progressive step, and all history teaches 

 that when that is taken, it is difficult to retract it. 



Doubtless some may remember when the wool and the 

 flax, grown on the farm, were spun and woven in the fjira- 

 ily. We shall never return to that again, because we can- 

 not afford it. They can be more cheaply manufactured by 

 associated capital, substituting the untiring arm of the 



