294 On Cheese-making in Home Dairies and in Factories. 
working expenses. The yearly 10 per cent, should form the nucleus of a 
separate fund, from which the portable plant should be maintained in an 
efficient state of repair ; and in the case of a milk supplier withdrawing from 
the factory under any circumstances his entrance fee would always remain 
intact, and be handed over to him on leaving the Association. This appears 
to me the most equitable means of placing the undertaking on a business 
footing." 
Before concluding with such statistics of last year's experience 
at these factories as I have been able to obtain, I may mention 
that at the factory in Derby, which I saw last summer, 18 farms 
were contributing milk, which, however, was at that time being 
despatched to consumers in London. At Mickleover 12 con- 
tributors were sending about 570 gallons daily from 250 cows, 
60 or 70 lbs. of butter being made weekly : the Cheddar system 
of cheese-making was being adopted. At Longford the milk of 
527 cows from 32 contributors was being dealt with, and the 
manager and two young assistants were said to be displacing 
jnore than a dozen dairymaids, who would have been employed 
at the several farms on the milk sent to the factory, during 
nine months of the year. At the Holms factory milk from 18 
contributors was being dealt with on the Derbyshire plan already 
described. At the Windley Hall factory milk from 18 con- 
tributors, and at Alstonfield milk from 17 contributors — about 
460 gallons daily from 230 cows at the time of my visit — ^was 
being manufactured. In addition to these I visited Tattenhall, 
in Cheshire, where the milk from two large farms was being 
dealt with on the factory system, the advantages of which Mr. 
Jackson's father was the earliest to perceive and advocate. The 
necessity for Sunday work is here evaded by delaying the Satur- 
day's manufacture till the evening, and dealing with three meals 
of milk instead of two on Monday morning. At Lichfield, too, 
I have seen a factory, now three years in operation, which 
commenced with 15 contributors, finishing off, however, last year 
with only 10, some of whom send their milk a distance of four 
miles. The milk of only 150 cows was here sent, and it had been 
a disastrous year in respect of the foot-and-mouth disease. The 
manager receives IZ. a week, together with 10s., 15s., and 20s. 
bonus per ton on the cheese, according as it realises 70s., 75s., 
or 80s. per cwt. He had made only 16 tons of cheese. At 
Nethercote, by Bourton-on-the- Water, I saw a factory at which 
Mr. Wilkins makes cheese, buying milk for the purpose in 
addition to that of his own 25 cows ; and I was astonished to 
hear that he had been receiving milk from no fewer than 167' 
cows, for which only 6(/. a gallon was paid. At Rooksbridge 
near Weston-super-Mare, two farmers have built a factory and 
extensive piggeries, ten others sending their milk, and Icavini; 
the whey as tlioir payment for the labour, fuel, and material: 
