NATIONAL SYSTEM OF CHEESE FACTORIES. 



The advantages of the District system of cheese-making 

 are therefore greatly in favour of the Farmer, and at the same 

 time they are overwhelmingly in favour of the nation. Why 

 should not cheese-making be run on National Lines, with a 

 Cheese Factory in every District where a reasonable quantity 

 of milk is being or could be produced ? Why should not 

 these Factories be able to purchase the surplus milk of the 

 district on Government fixed prices, provided they supply 

 the cheese made direct to local Retail Grocers till their actual 

 requirements are satisfied, and after that any surplus to be 

 sent only to other Factories in districts where they are quite 

 unable to supply local demands. In fact it would be quite 

 easy to have an office in the County Town to deal with the 

 surplus cheese at the District Factories in each County. A 

 National System of this kind would help the " Small " 

 Farmer as well as the " Big/' and what is so very impor- 

 tant, the cheese would be reaching the consumer, with the 

 minimum amount of time and labour being spent on its dis- 

 tribution. 



NATIONAL SYSTEM OF MILK DEPOTS. 



It would be quite easy to combine Milk Depots and 

 Cheese Factories in one, as long as it were made compulsory 

 for all milk produced on Farms in excess of local requirements 

 to be sent to the nearest District Centre. The demand for 

 new milk would need to be met by the cheese factory and milk 

 Depot supplying retail milk sellers or other factories, where 

 there was a shortage, and only surplus milk being made 

 into cheese. 



In large towns and probably most of the smaller towns 

 it would be necessary to have milk depots, so as to deal 

 direct with the retail shopkeepers in that town. These milk 

 depots would be supplied through the County organisation 

 set up to deal with the surplus at the District Factories. 



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