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that — make an article so good that a consumer will make a 

 second purchase. 



Three-fourths of our whole country is not capable of pro- 

 ducing their dairy products; we being more favored with 

 those essentials of a dairy region, must supply them, and 

 we must be careful not to let this great industry be taken from 

 us by some other locality, whose people will profit by our 

 mistakes. The fact is we can not find in the home grocery a 

 single good cheese unless it is imported. We refuse to uSe 

 it; it is a mockery; when new, it is fair, but when cut — that 

 is the last of it. The future of the business he considered 

 flattering, as there would always be a good demand for a 

 good article. 



J. R. McLean felt aroused at the broad denunciation of 

 shimmed cheese by Judge Wilcox ; he said on the Elgin Board 

 of Trade there certainly was a great demand for this kind 

 of cheese. Reform, he said, was the watchword, and people 

 had now become so reformed they really liked skimmed 

 cheese, and were willing to pay for it. It was a fact that full 

 cream cheese would not sell as readily as skimmed; there 

 was only one cent per pound difference in price, and often not 

 that in quality. The fact is the people have been so reformed 

 they will not eat full cream cheese any longer. Dealers would 

 not buy full cream cheese — could not keep and could not sell it; 

 the fact is, it is hard to sell a genuine article of food. Split 

 bean coffee, spurious tea and sanded sugars meet with ready 

 sale; could not see how we could get along without the 

 skimmed cheese. 



Dr. R. R. Stone said he thought the two gentlemen who 

 had preceded him were extremists; he thought there was a 

 happy medium which could be adopted and not follow either 

 of these extremes. Had been twelve years in the cheese 

 business. In early times he made cheese the same as he 

 made hay or pork, and sold once a year; it was then old and 

 tough and strong enough to do house work; but our people 

 were used to it, and so they liked it. But as fashion changes, 

 so does the table. The demand was now for a mild cheese. 



