150 YALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. 



paraphernalia, the completeness of the outfit being regulated 

 by the amount of business to be done. This might be made 

 by a joint stock association, or private individuals ; the former 

 being preferable, for a single proprietor would aim to get his 

 curd at the lowest possible price, whereas under the joint stock 

 plan the cost of manufacture is lessened and the common profit 

 increased. The dairy furnishes to all subscribers rennet of the 

 best quality, and requires them to follow a certain dairy man 

 agement on the farm. At regular intervals the wagons go 

 about to collect the curds, and the farmer gets his pay either 

 for them, or for the cheese sold. In like manner, the cream 

 could be sent for conversion into butter. Or if skim-milk 

 cheese and butter were both made, both cream and curds 

 would be sent to the central dairy. Allowing the practica 

 bility of this plan, and I can see no great reasons to the con 

 trary, its manifest superiority is, I think, apparent. The dairy 

 would become so famous for superior butter and cheese, that 

 an extra price could always be obtained for them in market. 

 In- the Canton de Vaud, the butter made in these dairy estab 

 lishments actually commands in market from one-fifth to one- 

 sixth more per pound than that made at the small farms about; 

 and in our country, where private wealth is more evenly dis 

 tributed, the difference wouldundoubtedly be greater. Mr. 

 Thomas Mottley, Jr., the West Roxbury breeder, gets fifty 

 cents per pound for his Alderney butter in Boston, a fact 

 which sufficiently shows that there are plenty of persons ready 

 and willing to pay an enormous price for a superior article. 



The care of sheep formed the subject of the lecture of Mr. 

 GOLD. It should always be the object of the flock- master to 

 keep his sheep in a thriving condition. The quality of the 

 wool, as well as its quantity, and the general productiveness 

 of the flock, demand this system. 



Shelter is the first necessity in providing for wintering sheep 

 successfully. The Southdowns will bear exposure better than 



