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bronglit to a greater degree of perfection. Here is economy of 

 labor with larger profits. Here one individual will take care of 

 the milk and cheese of one hundred cows with as much ease as 

 twenty or twenty-five by the old process; so that we not only 

 avoid a great amount of labor, but increase the productiveness 

 of the dairy. In 1850 or 1851 the first cheese-factory in the 

 State of New York went into operation, and now there are not 

 less than eight hundred in successful operation, and the number 

 is rapidly increasing. 



In Massachusetts, the first factory was erected in 1864, and 

 now there are not less than twenty. With this increase, and 

 the increased attention given to this part of the farm operations, 

 there can be no doubt but the march will be onward. With 

 obstacles like these removed, many of the great barriers in the 

 way of successful farming are broken down. And if the farmer 

 will only realize that he is engaged in a noble calling, and not 

 feel, as some do, dissatisfied with their business, and with long- 

 ing eyes follow some one who perchance has left the farm for 

 the workshop, the manufactory, the counting-room, the profes- 

 sions or political life, feeling that they are on the high road to 

 fame, ease, wealth and happiness — that their path is strewn 

 with flowers and roses, without a thorn, it will be well. 



Let us remember that 



" The cares of State are thorns within the breast, 

 That ever pierce the good man's heart and rob him of his rest." 



Let him remember that the man of business is burdened with 

 care and anxiety as he goes up and down upon the wave of 

 prosperity and adversity, and that the tendency of such cares is 

 to harden the heart and soften the brain. Let him remember 

 that the professional man or politician is liable to be swayed by 

 the opinions of others — by those on whom he is perhaps depend- 

 ent for his daily bread — that he cannot or does not always 

 stand up and proclaim the honest convictions of his heart, lest 

 he may in some way block the way to his own individual success. 

 We live in a fast age, at a time when many wish to take the 

 fastest train, and can hardly wait for wood or water, or to see 

 whether there are obstructions upon the track that need to be 

 removed. In this way perhaps an axletree is heated, a wheel 

 broken, or some obstruction throws the train from the track. 



