282 On Cheese-making in Home Dairies and in Factories. 
4:71. One farther item of interest in the details which have 
been given me from this dairy may be mentioned : the lowest 
price of the past year was 64s., the highest 90s. per 120 lbs. — a 
range of 26s. per cwt. 
1868. 
1870. 
1872. 
1874. 
Date. 
Milk. 
Galls. 
Curd, 
lbs. 
Butter, 
lbs. 
per day 
Milk. 
Galls. 
Curd, 
lbs 
Butter, 
lbs. 
per day 
Milk. 
Galls. 
Curd, 
lbs. 
Butter, 
lbs. 
'per day. 
Milk. 
Galls. 
Curd. 
lbs. 
Bmte 
lbs. 
April . . 
115 
100 
6 
109 
94 
7 
109 
99 
5 
73 
59 
4 
May . . 
165 
170 
4 
176 
161 
ii 
162 
153 
6 
62 
59 
t 
June . 
158 
152 
3h 
165 
148 
4i 
133 
124 
4 
July . . 
117 
111 
3i 
132 
117 
4 
163 
149 
5 
122 
114 
31 
August . 
96 
94 
4 
98 
90 
3 
148 
142 
4i 
118 
116 
2( 
September 
118 
124 
S 
88 
90 
3i 
137 
140 
3 
110 
121 
3 
October . 
103 
117 
4 
72 
76 
2J 
90 
103 
2J 
66 
75 
2 
November 
37 
43 
1 
69 
76 
li 
52 
58 
2i 
Average . 
124i 
124 
4i 
109i 
102i 
3f 
125i 
123 
4 
92 
91 
3i 
Wbigbt of Cheese. 
Weight of Cheese. 
Green. 
When Sold. 
Shrinkage. 
Green. 
When Sold. 
Shrinkage. 
lbs. 
85 
J5i 
24i 
32i 
lbs. 
80 J 
7U 
23 
301 
lbs. 
4* 
4 
11 
2i 
lbs. 
85 
75i 
90i 
Loaf 1 
cheese 5 / 
lbs. 
80 J 
7li 
86 
15i 
lbs. 
4i 
4 
*i 
*,* No dates have been given when the above cheese was made or sold. 
The Factory System of Making Cheese. 
I have now to describe the factory system and its results in a 
sufficient number of examples, and over a sufficient period of time 
to make the experience to be reported of it trustworthy. The 
history, from the beginning, of the first established factories in 
Derbyshire has been already reported in vol. vii., S. S., p. 42-60, 
by Mr. Gilbert Murray, who has told the story of the first year's 
make — that of 1870 — and of the public-spirited labours by which 
the system was, in the midst of some hardly avoidable blunders, 
and at some consequent expense to the guarantors, introduced. 
It was not until the end of the second year that the guarantors of 
