Cheese Factories in Derbyshire. 
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The Committee originally intended that Mr. Schermerhorn 
should superintend both the Derby and Longford factories, de- 
votinjj; part of the week to each, and having a leading hand in 
each factory to whom he could impart information and instruc- 
tion, and upon whom would devolve the responsibility during his 
absence. But they afterwards felt that a daily produce worth 
from 30?. to 40/. represented a capital too large to be safely 
intrusted in the hands of any but an experienced person, and 
that a failure from mismanagement, or from any other cause, 
would not only be fatal to the movement but would also entail 
a considerable loss on the guarantors. Having, therefore, con- 
sulted with Mr. Schermerhorn, it was deemed desirable to 
telegraph to America for another maker to be engaged and 
sent over at once. Mr. Levi Schermerhorn accepted the engage- 
ment on the same terms as his brother, and arrived in Derby 
about the middle of April. 
The original Committee having presented their Report to 
the Derbyshire Agricultural Society on the 18th of February, 
it was considered that they had satisfactorily fulfilled their 
mission. A new working Committee was, therefore, appointed 
by the guarantors, to order and superintend the construction of 
the working plant, and the erection of the necessary factory- 
buildings ; to draw up a code of rules and regulations for the 
proper management of the factory and for the guidance of milk 
suppliers ; to overlook and generally direct the efforts of the 
manager and his subordinates; to pay the milk suppliers on 
the first Friday in each month ; to examine and pay all bills ; 
and to dispose of the produce of the factories to the best of their 
iud<rment. The Members of the Derby Committee were Mr. J. 
G. Crompton (Chairman), Messrs. Murray, Nuttall, Tomkinson, 
nnd Burnett. The Lonsjford Committee were the Hon. E. K. 
W. Coke (Chairman), Messrs. Coleman, Lowndes, and Salt. In 
all matters of importance the two Committees worked together, 
their interests being identical. From the commencement they 
were much Indebted to Mr. J. C. Smith, Secretary to the Asso- 
< iation. All the vats, presses, and tables were made by Mr. 
G"o. Dakin, joiner, Derby ; and Mr. Higglnbotham, who occu- 
pies silk-mills adjoininji the Derby Factory, kindly allowed 
them to carry a steam-pipe from the boiler of his engine, and 
gratuitously supplied the factory with steam during the work- 
ing season The arrangements havin;; been so far completed 
as to warrant the commencement of operations, the first cheese 
was made in the Derby factory on the 8th of April, the milk 
supply having been drawn from 13 different farms, keeping an 
aggregate ol 300 cows. The Committee had reluctantly to refuse 
an equal number more, as, from a sense of their inexperience 
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