204 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Jan. 



the business of the farm successful. It is to such as can 

 attend to its demands that this business of private dairying 

 applies. Happily, in this work of making cheese it is found 

 that the boys and the men can lend a useful hand in the 

 labor, where girls are not plenty, and can relieve the 

 women from the heavy work involved. In the country 

 towns it has become one of the problems of the times, 

 What shall be done with so many school teachers? The 

 girls are all given a good education, and go out from the 

 schools candidates for teaching. I submit whether it would 

 not be quite as well for more of them to turn their attention 

 towards these useful and profitable employments of the farm. 

 If we are not careful, we shall soon educate the children to 

 the idea that farm work is degrading. Cheese-making may 

 still have a place on the farm. 



Everyone knows, who has been seeking for top prices on 

 the market, that there is a demand for articles out of season, 

 and that people are willing to pay premium prices for the 

 sake of gratifying this desire. Strawberries in February, 

 "spring laml)" in January and "broilers" in April, are 

 examples in illustration of this point. People anticipate the 

 advent of summer in their desire for new cheese as well as 

 in their demand for lamb and chicken ; and the onl}^ reason 

 the demand is not wider and louder is, that the girls are all 

 teaching school instead of making cheese, and the call can- 

 not be answered. There are many consumers who prefer 

 new cheese to the ripened article, and they would use it the 

 year around if it were on the market. As it is, some dairy- 

 men have caught on to the idea of early cheese, and are 

 offering it to admirino: consumers in advance of the general 

 make, and at richly paying prices. It matters not how green 

 the product, if the texture is such that it can be handled. 



The private dairy work is particularly well adapted to this 

 kind of dairying. In my own county there are a consider- 

 able numl)er of farmers engaged in it, and there is no line of 

 milk work outside the retailer's cart and quart that can match 

 it. Cheese is put on the market as early as the month of 

 March. In some cases provision dealers in your State have 

 sought out our product, and secured a supply. In one case 

 a contract was filled for January cheese. There can be no 



