410 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



"Wisconsin and Minnesota, which may prove equally good. "We 

 hope so. And these lands, being restricted in area, as popula- 

 tion and the foreign demand for dairy products increase, will be 

 constantly augmenting in value. Great improvements have been 

 recently made in manufacturing cheese and butter, even to "con- 

 centrated" milk for city use, and exportation. The establish- 

 ment of cheese and butter factories has improved the quality of 

 those articles, and cheapened their production. The tests of 

 science, and accuracy of method, have been adopted in them, 

 raising their flavor and quality to the highest standard, both at 

 home and abroad. 



Knowing, thus, what has been accomplished in these particu- 

 lars, we have every incentive to a still further improvement in 

 the material cows to furnish these most satisfactory results. 

 Dairy factories, aside from improving the quality of their pro- 

 ducts, and increasing their prices over the old household way of 

 making them, have accomplished a most beneficent and merciful 

 mission, in relieving the wives and daughters of our dairymen of 

 a routine of slavish and most wearing labor. The life of a house- 

 hold dairywoman is toilsome in the extreme. Perpetual watch- 

 fulness, anxiety, and work throughout the dairy season, frequently 

 beyond her physical endurance, has been her destiny over the 

 cheese tub, and shelf, the churn, and butter bowl to say 

 nothing of her labors in the milking yard, over the wash kettle, 

 and scrubbing brush. No relaxation whatever is permitted. 

 Necessity knows no law, nor mercy for those patient, over-worked 

 solaces of the household. Even hired female labor is impatient 

 of the task, and shirks it, except at the highest wages, and for a 

 limited period. 



"We trust that dairy factories may soon become the rule, and 

 the household thus relieved of an intolerable drudgery. In fac- 

 tories, the strength and ingenuity of man is employed almost 

 solely, and the female assistance required is so mitigated in its 



