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ture, cost of material, labour, &c. Factories cost here now from 
3000 to 10,000 dollars (600/. to 2000/.). 
4. Cost of Macliinery. — The principal cost under this head 
will be for steam-boiler, vats, presses, and hoops : — Steam-boiler, 
with fixtures, 500 dollars; milk-vats, 100 dollars each; screws 
for frames, say 5 dollars each ; hoops, each 2 dollars. 
From 1200 to 1500 dollars (240/. to 300/.) will fit up a factory 
of 600 cows in good running order. 
Milk- vats, with heater attached, are used to some extent. 
These obviate the use of steam, and are furnished, 600 full size, 
for 200 dollars (40/.) each. 
5. Capital invested. — If you add site or grounds, this question 
is answered in Nos. 3 and 4. Factory sites are usually leased at 
small rentals. 
6. Work-people employed. — A factory of 600 cows will need 
five hands, and perhaps one more when curing-rooms are full : — 
The manager, or head - manufacturer, who gets from 800 to 
1200 dollars salary for cheese-making season (9 or 10 months) ; 
second man to work in vats, put cheese to press, turn, &c., 30 to 
40 dollars per month, and board ; three or four women at 4 and 
5 dollars per week, and board. 
Boys and girls, or young persons of immature age, are not 
usually employed. 
The manager of the factory is expected to "take off his coat" 
and work at every part of the business, as occasion requires. 
7. Quantity of Milk received. — This of course will depend 
upon a variety of circumstances — goodness of the cows, pasturage, 
season, time of commencing and closing operations, &c. 
The Week's factory, in 1867, had an average of 620 cows, and 
was in operation 209 days. Pounds of milk received, 2,481,615; 
green cheese made, 261,904 lbs.; cured cheese, 250,540 lbs.; 
shrinkage, 4 per cent. Pounds of milk for one of green cheese, 
^TTHT 5 pound of milk for one of cured cheese, O-jS^i^. 
The gross receipts per cow (average for the season, exclusive 
•of income from butter and cheese made before factory opened, 
and after its close) varies from 34 to 78 dollars (6/. I65. to 15Z. 12s.), 
the former being the poorest dairies, and the latter the best. 
The cheese that season sold very low in America. The 
average sales of the Week's factory being only 14:^-^^ dollars per 
100 lbs. (695. per 120 lbs.). 
The receipts in other years have been much larger, but I 
suppose something of an average is what you desire. 
Some of the factories in Herkima make an average of over 
500 lbs. cured cheese per cow. At present prices of cheese, 
20 cents. (lOrf.), this would give 100 dollars per cow (20/.). 
8. Distance {inaxirnum and averaye) lohich Milk is brouyht. — 
