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Cheese factory in Australia. — An Americau cheese factory has 

 been established near Alansford, Victoria, Australia, and is the first of 

 the kind opened in the colonies. The present ai)paratus has a dailj 

 capacity to convert three hundred and eighty gallons of 'milk into 

 cheese, on the factory plan. Cheese from the milk of five hundred cows 

 can be made by three hands ; whereas, on the ordinary system, it would 

 require four hands to make cheese from one hundred cows. The own- 

 ers take the milk to the factory, and receive a minimum of four pence — 

 equal to eight cents, in summer, and four and a half pence, equal to 

 nine cents per gallon, in winter — and have a guarantee that the i)rice of 

 milk per gallon shall never fall below two-thirds the price of cheese per 

 pound. The price of cheese in Melbourne ranges from twelve to 

 eighteen cents per pound. 



