ON THE DAIRY. 2o 



We have heard the same thing substantially from dairy woraeu 

 themselves. Let those cows which abound In quafitlti/ onlt/, be 

 turned over to those who care only for filling their measures ; and 

 let those that afford substance as well as show be kept to supply the 

 churn. 



But one parcel of cheese was presented to the Committee. This 

 was such as to leave no hesitation as to the propriety of awarding 

 the premium offered. If our recollection is right, a similar state of 

 facts occurred the last year. Why it is that the farmers of Essex 

 are so indifferent as to be unwilling to present their claims, for this 

 branch of the products of the dairy, we are unable to Imagine. It 

 cannot be that they have discontinued the making of cheese, for this 

 will never happen while people have an inclination to use it. That it 

 is still used, every well furnished table bears testimony. That those 

 farmers who live in the immediate vicinity of a ready market for 

 milk or butter can turn it to better account than to make it into 

 cheese, we have no doubt ; but when two pounds of good cheese will 

 readily command as much money as one pound of well-preserved 

 butter, we think there are many farms on the sea shore and on the 

 banks of the Merrimack, where their milk will bo most advantage- 

 ously used for the making of cheese. We remember to have seen 

 splendid collections of cheese made in West Newbury and Andover ; 

 and if such are now there, Ave can only regret that they are not 

 brought forward. Farmers should remember that they owe some- 

 thing to the public as well as to themselves ; and that they have not 

 done their whole duty when they have simply pocketed the money 

 offered as premiums. The design of these Exhibitions Is to present 

 a fair specimen of the products of the County ; and every one who 

 has a spark of patriotism in his breast, should be willing to lend a 

 helping hand. I wish those good women who labor and tug day af- 

 ter day in turning and rubbing their cheeses, would occasionally jog 

 the elbows of their husbands, and urge them to go ahead in the way of 

 their duty. Every man who loves his wife as he ought to do, will 

 be proud to exhibit the products of her industry. If they will not, 

 let the women themselves, do as others we could name have credi- 

 tably done, exhibit their own cheeses with their own hands. What 

 more interesting part of the exhibition could there be, than to have the 

 products of a dozen dairies, under the superintendence of the ladies 

 themselves, ready to explain how they were made ? 



