CHEESE DAIRIES IN VIRGINIA. 399 



P. S. — We have just, by chance, heard of an evidence of the feeling that is 

 spreading on the subject of agricultural education, so gratifying that, without the 

 least suspicion on the part of him to whom it does honor, we cannot forbear to 

 mention that Dr. Williams, the worthy President of the Senate of Maryland, has 

 tendered 100 or 150 acres of land for the establishment of a well organized Agri- 

 cultural School. That, we believe, is more than the United States Government 

 has done for civil education in any of the old States, whose blood was shed to 

 acquire the lands so freely given away in the new. 



Finally, Memorials, on the principle of the one sketched in a late number of 

 The Farmers' Library, have been lately presented, with numerous signatures, 

 from various counties, to the Legislatures of New-Jersey, Delaware and Mary- 

 land, calling on these bodies to demand, through their Representatives in Con- 

 gress, some assistance for the establishment of Normal Schools, for the prepara- 

 tion of teachers qualified to give instruction in the Public Schools of the Slate in 

 the sciences allied to Agriculture. We want nothing now but that sympathy and 

 support of the press of the country, which so quickly responds to the voice of 

 particular classes. 



CHEESE DAIRIES IN VIRGINIA. 



MAJOR STEVENS'S RECIPE FOR MAKING WELSH RAREBIT. 



Are you, Mr. Editor, sufficiently observant of the progress of the arts to know 

 that the art of manufacturing cheese is traveling southward close on the tail of 

 the red fox ? The latter has but very lately crossed the line from the Old Do- 

 minion mto the old North State, somewhere about Milton, and the former has 

 been yet more recently established in the mountains of Virginia. 



Doctor P. Thornton, w^hose ideas of what may be useful and feasible have 

 been observed to march in advance of his neighbors, has lately procured, 

 from the North, a very respectable and intelligent person, acquainted with 

 the business, to establish a cheese dairy at Montpelier, a most delightful resi- 

 dence, as its name imports, situate in a charming valley between the mountains 

 of Rappahannock ; and most excellent, I can truly say, are the specimens I have 

 seen and tasted from the Montpelier dairy — far more palatable to my taste, than 

 much of the dry, husky, so-called old English cheese they give us at many of 

 the hotels. The color is of the right cast, while in richness and flavor it is all 

 that could be wished, unless it be that, perhaps, for Vvrant of age, it may not have 

 reached that haul gout, or attained that degree of active liveliness which the 

 more pampered and delicate palate Of the epicure might demand. We have 

 heard, also, of other movements for the establishment of cheeseries, far back 

 from tide water in Virginia ; nor does there seem to be any good reason why 

 they should not be reasonably profitable — I say reasonably, because we are all 

 for making money too fast. It is time we had learned — for we shall have to 

 learn that they are fortunate who by the utmost diligence and economy can 

 support their families decently and make both ends meet ; nor can that be done 

 m many cases, unless all — yes, all — who consvme, are made to /jro^^j^c^. 



In the mountains and valleys far back from tide-water, and to and from which 

 transportation is expensive, they have the grass in summer and the fodder and 

 corn in winter !oo distant to be sent to market, and more prolitablv convertible 



