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no whey. He has refused to do that and his father refused to do it 

 before him. The reason is that he believes the tins, if not properly 

 washed, might be contaminated and would contaminate the milk 

 when next sent. His cheese factory was the best we had yet visited. 

 The utensil used for stirring the cheese in the vats was driven by 

 machinery. The whole place was clean, tidy and up to date, 

 but the floor instead of being of concrete was of wood. Mr 

 Ballantyne feeds hundreds of pigs. His piggeries are wooden 

 buildings, floored with wood, and the pigs have no bedding. They 

 are crosses of the Tamworth, Yorkshire, and Berkshire breeds. 

 They are sent to Montreal and shipped to England. 



We now turned the horses' heads to St Mary's. But twenty 

 miles through a good agricultural district intervened. It is both 

 a dairy and a beef-producing district. The farmhouses and stead- 

 ings are substantial and the roads the best we had seen. Farms 

 extend as a rule to 100 acres, and are rented at from 12s. to 16s. 

 per acre, and land sells at from £16 to £20 per acre. We reached St 

 Mary's about two o'clock, and had almost immediately to start with 

 the St Mary's men to see their district. It is wonderful how much 

 country one can cross with a pair of good horses, not to speak of 

 a motor car, which recognises no speed limit. We did the St Mary's 

 district, and were able to attend a reception given by Dr and Mrs 

 Mathieson before the 5.30 train left for London. In London we 

 were mere birds of passage on our way to Ingersoll, which we 

 reached the morning after we left St Mary's. The local people 

 had as usual made all the necessary arrangements, and we drove 

 to the premises of the St Charles Milk Condensing Company, Limited, 

 which owns one hundred and forty-six factories for condensing 

 milk in the United States and Canada. The Ingersoll Company is 

 supplied with the milk of one hundred and eighty-seven farmers, 

 whose farms are situated within a radius of ten miles of the factory. 

 We were anxious to see the dairyiijg district in the immediate 

 vicinity, which supplied the company with milk. An examination 

 of two farms, one of 200 acres and another of 150 acres, and a more 

 general inspection of the country as a whole convinced us that there 

 were in this district as good farms as we had seen in the province. 

 We did Ingersoll in the forenoon, including, we should have men- 

 tioned, the Ingersoll Packing Company's premises which has pro- 

 vision for killing 300 pigs per hour, and reached Woodstock at 12.30. 

 Half an hour later we were driving towards cheese factories similar 

 to those already visited, and farms of different sizes, valued at about 

 £16 per acre. We examined Mr William Donaldson's farm, at which 

 fat cattle are made a specialty, and Messrs Macdonald's farm, 

 where shorthorns are bred. On our way back to town we called 

 at a dairy farm of 100 acres owned by Mr A. J. Davis, an old Guelph 

 student. He keeps twenty-five Holstein cows. Some give from 

 1000 to 1200 gallons of milk per year. The average he estimated 

 at from 700 to 800 gallons. We got back to Woodstock travel- 

 stained, — who could be anything else motoring over roads with 

 inches of dust on them, — but not too travel-stained apparently 

 to be worthy of a reception — the second held in our honour in two 



