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Butter-makino; and cheese-makiiii]:: are thus shown to be 

 outlets for milk, independent of the sale-milk trade, that are 

 well worthy the attention of farmers ; and these opportu- 

 nities are open to any who may see fit to go in and secure 

 the advantages they ofter. True, there is labor involved, 

 but it brings its compensation. The milkman on his cart at 

 four o'clock in the morning is willing to do it for the pay he 

 ffets out of it. The butter-maker or the cheese-maker has no 

 right to ask for the benefits possible to the business, unless 

 they render equally faithful service. This review shows, what 

 is undoubtedly true, that there is not a wide choice between 

 the different kinds of dairy work, only as that advantage is 

 secured by obedience to exacting and laborious demands ; 

 so that, whether one or the other shows the larger margin 

 of profit, depends more on the man than on the line of 

 work followed. If the milk business is crowded, it is seen 

 there is profitable work outside and room enough to carry 

 it on. 



I have chosen to take these commonplace and familiar 

 products of butter and cheese with which to illustrate this 

 fact. But the illustration need not stop here. We are but 

 just entering the finer work that may be done with milk. 

 The luxurious living, accompanying the higher civilization 

 gradually but surely creeping upon us as wealth accumu- 

 lates, demands the finest and the best that skill can produce, 

 and in all the variety that the genius of man can supply. 

 Even pure butter and fine cheese are new products with 

 our people, and, up to the present day, are not plenty. 

 The fine creams with their delicious flavors, and capable of 

 indefinite variety, and the rich milks few have ever tasted, 

 have only to be placed before the admiring palates of 

 the refined New England people, to be appreciated in all 

 their delicacy. Farmers may find abundant opportunity to 

 seek out and develop work outside the familiar milk-can. 



Secretary Sessions. You will recollect that our pro- 

 gramme announces for this morning a paper on " Economi- 

 cal Feeding of the Wastes of the Dairy, " by Joseph Harris 

 of Rochester, N. Y. Knowing that we were to be disap- 

 pointed in our expectation of having this paper, I asked 



