ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS. 3T 



Many farmers are too diffuse in their labors. Their pros- 

 perity would he increased and cares lessened and simplified hy 

 concentrating their efforts upon one point ; by making some 

 one of the diversified operations in farming a specialty. We 

 find the profits of manufacturing very much increased by con- 

 centrating individual labor upon individual points, and it will 

 apply with equal force to farming. And as this is a grazing 

 section, cheese-making may be worthy of a few moments' consid- 

 eration. When I say cheese-making, I mean factory cheese; 

 for twenty-five years hence, cheese-making in private families 

 will be as little known as cloth-making now is. By reference to 

 the industrial statistics of Massachusetts for 1865, we find there 

 was kept in Blandford at that time a stock equivalent to 2,394 

 cows. Now, allowing that 2,000 cows could be furnished to 

 stock four cheese factories in the different parts of the town, 

 giving 500 cows to each factory, and that the net produce of 

 those cows was $60 each, the farmers of Blandford would 

 receive the snug sum of $120,000 yearly. You may at first 

 look upon this as visionary ; but it will bear investigation. 



There is another point in this connection to which I would 

 call your attention ; the strife and emulation which would be 

 induced to see who should get the greatest amount of milk 

 per cow, and who should keep the most cows. If one man 

 was sending to the factory an average of thirty pounds of milk 

 per day per cow, and another only twenty, the latter would soon 

 be looking for better cows and better keeping. If one man was 

 keeping twelve cows on a farm of one hundred acres, and 

 another only eight, quite likely one would be looking to see 

 where improvements would justify another cow ; and soon two 

 more cheese factories would spring up with the additional five 

 hundred cows each. 



There are those in Worcester County who realize $100 per 

 cow annually from cows whose milk goes to the cheese factory ; 

 and I have the cow in view, from a dairy of thirty cows, and 

 nothing but pasture feed, that gave, in the month of June, an 

 average of 71| pounds of milk per day for ten days in succes- 

 sion. The most given in any one day was 77} pounds, and at 

 one milking 41| pounds. 



I think an accurate account kept by the farmer of all farm 

 transactions would put him on a track of thinking which would 



