214 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



Professor Brooks of the Agricultural College to be here and 

 help to fill the gap. 1 would like to have the professor take 

 the time allotted for that subject. 



Professor Brooks. Mr. Gilbert has spoken of the entire 

 change in the production of cheese in farmers' houses by 

 reason of the number of school-teachers ; and he seemed to 

 consider the subject simply from the stand-point that they 

 should produce essentially the same kind of article that 

 cheese factories produce, or that they should aim, as 

 he said, to produce green cheese at the right season in 

 order to get higher prices. Earlier in his remarks he 

 called attention to the fact, well known to all of you, 

 that Americans are not cheese-eaters. There is, I think, an 

 important reason which is connected with our system of 

 cheese-makino;. Our cheese-makers are not attentive enousrh 

 to the requirements of the fiimily. Our cheese factories 

 produce cheese of enormous size. If the head of a family 

 wants to buy cheese, he cannot buy a small cheese, he has 

 to take a slice out of one of large size ; and you all know 

 how much of that is wasted before it can be eaten up. Our 

 English cousins, the French and other nations, pay much 

 more attention to the requirements of families, and produce 

 small-size cheese, weighing from two and one-half to five 

 pounds, of very delicious quality, which they offer to their 

 customers ; and, as you proliably know, the English and 

 French eat much more cheese than we do. Is not this 

 largely due to the fact that they find in their markets an 

 article which is much better suited to domestic use? It 

 seems to me that this cannot be doubted, and I would sug- 

 gest that the production in our families of higher grades of 

 cheese, if they are of small size, is worth thinking of, at 

 least. 



THE ECONOMICAL DISPOSITION OF THE WASTES OF THE 



DAIRY. 



BY WILLIAM P. BROOKS, PROFESSOR OP AGRICULTURE, AMHERST, MASS. 



It is with extreme diffidence that I attempt to speak upon 

 this subject in place of Joseph Harris, who, as you all 

 know, has devoted a long life to its study, and who has had 

 a varied and rich experience, upon which he would have 



