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The Countrv Gentlcinaiis Magazine 



IS. i^d., and i lb. of butter 8d., or 5^d. 

 in favour of cheese. Deducting the price of 

 manufacture, and we have 5>^d. for butter 

 and lod. for cheese, or 4>^d. in favour of 

 cheese. I am sure no one could ask for a 

 fairer comparison than this, and the experi- 

 ence of dairymen will carry me out in these 

 deductions. 



Upon this basis let us see what the profits 

 will be on each. It is plain enough to be 

 seen that they will be in the same propor- 

 tion as the price received for butter and 

 cheese, consequently the profits favour the 

 manufacture of cheese. I will take one 

 example from our milk account with our 

 patrons at the factory. Mr B.'s cows, in 

 three months and five days, yielded 16,554 lb. 

 of milk, or 1622 lb., which made 1622 lb. of 

 cheese. This brought, say, £,^2, 3s. 6d., or 



a little over £6 per cow. If he had made 

 butter it would have produced 551 lb., which 

 at lod. per lb., would have brought 

 ^22, 5s. 3d., or ^3, 12 s. per cow, making 

 a difterence of nearly half in favour of cheese. 

 Deducting the amount for manufacturing, 

 and we would have received for cheese 

 nearly ^34, 2s., for butter nearly ^-^16, i6s., 

 per cow for cheese, in round figures, £^, i8s., 

 but for butter ^£2, 8s. 6d., or more than 

 twice as much for cheese as butter. This is 

 only for half a season. Had we made six 

 months he would have received ;^i2, 3s. 

 per cow ; deducting the price of manufac- 

 ture and he would have received ;^io per 

 cow. The first season was the most favour- 

 able, as the drought of the past year has 

 lessened the flow of milk materially, and the 

 price of cheese has been considerably less. 



