On Cheese-maMng in Home Dairies and in Factories. 295 
employed in the manufacture. The Cheddar system is adopted 
through the summer : thin cheese, on the Derbyshire plan, being^ 
made during the earlier months. About 10 tons per month had 
been made in the dry months of July, August, and September 
of last year, 13 and 14 tons having been made in May and June 
from the same cows, about 380 in number. A manager with two 
assistants, at 20s. and 16s. a week respectively, were making the 
cheese. The whey ran off to tanks, whence it was pumped 
to the large piggeries, which were too near the factory to be 
advisable or even agreeable. 
In addition to these, I hear of a factory at Sutton-on-the-Hill 
for 500 cows ; one at Hartington, in the Peak district, for 500 
cows ; one at Grange Hill, also in the Peak district, for 400 cows : 
one at Ellaston, near Ashbourne, for 500 cows ; one at Ked- 
leston, on Lord Scarsdale's property, for 500 cows ; one at West 
Hallam, on the property of W. Drury Lowe, Esq., for 300 cows : 
all these in Derbyshire. One at Balderton, and another at 
Alford, on the Duke of Westminster's estate in Cheshire, are 
being erected for 800 cows each ; and there is a small one at 
Worle, in Somersetshire, and one for 300 cows at Beedy, near 
Melton, Leicestershire. It is plain, therefore, that the system 
is extending ; and this is justified by such facts of the year 1874 
as have been allowed to appear. 
In order that I might obtain the financial results for 1874 of 
the cheese-factories of Derbyshire, I addressed a circular to each 
asking for the weight of milk received and of green cheese made 
from it month by month in each — the quantity of cheese sold 
from each at the date of my inquiry- — the lowest, highest, and 
average prices which had been realised per cwt. — the quantity 
of cheese then unsold — the cost of labour, fuel, salt, rennet, 
annatto, bandages, and any other materials during the year — the 
rent of building and of plant — the number of milk-suppliers, 
and the number of their cows. It is only in three instances that 
I have received anything like the full details which are wanted 
for a complete report. Now that these factories are under co- 
operative management, bent not, as till lately such factories 
were, on convincing neighbours that the system was a success, 
but simply on realising the largest possible profit for their 
" patrons " and contributors, there is no such motive for publi- 
cation as formerly existed. And accordingly I have been told, 
in several instances, in answer to my application, that my ques- 
tions cannot in fairness be asked of any private association for the 
purpose of publication. I am, however, able to state pretty fully 
the lacts regarding one or two of these associations. For instance, 
of the Holms cheese-factory, of which a full report has been 
