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its best endeavor to obtain legislation that shall suppress and 

 punish fraud in all dairy products, and also to advance the inter- 

 ests of this important branch of agriculture to the farmers of this 

 State. 



Mr. HiCKOX seconded the resolution, and it was adopted 

 unanimously. 



Mr. Geixnell of Greenfield. Perhaps there will be no 

 better time for a resolution which I desire to offer than the 

 present ; so I move the adoption of the following : — 



Resolved, That the State Board of Agriculture, in signifying 

 their great satisfaction with the arrangements and proceedings of 

 this winter meeting, desire to express their thanks for courtesies 

 and attentions extended to them by the city government and the 

 citizens of Fitchburg. 



The resolution was seconded, and unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Stockwell. As I listened to the address of Secretary 

 Gilbert, I noticed that the credit of introducing co-operative 

 cheese-making was given to a different person from the one 

 to whom I had always credited it. In looking up this matter 

 some few ^^ears ago, I thought I found that Jesse Williams 

 of Rome, Oneida County, New York, was the originator of 

 the cheese factory. It was T)rought al)out by the sickness of 

 his wife, he being obliged to take her place in making 

 cheese : and he produced so fine a product that a demand 

 was at once created, the price advanced, and the desire for 

 more became so great that he joined with his fiirm that of 

 his son, and together they supplied the product for a time, 

 and then others of their neioi:hbors were brought in. I took 

 this from an English authority, by an American correspond- 

 ent, found in the office of the Secretary of our Board of 

 Agriculture. Growing out of this, Cornelius Schemmerhorn 

 of New York State was called to England, and there took 

 charge of the first English factory that was ever introduced, 

 I think in Derby. The introduction of co-operative cheese- 

 making and co-operative creameries led to the introduction 

 of American cheese into England ; and that was the begin- 

 ning of the exportation of American dairy products. It 

 began in 1850, and at the present time it is millions of 

 pounds. I simply wanted to call the attention of Secretary 



