and its adaptability to English Dairy Districts. 195 
morning by the patrons in their milk-cans. Some factories have 
a yard adjoining the factory stocked with hogs, to whom the 
whey is fed at a small charge per week ; but this bog-yard is an 
abominable nuisance, and none ought to be allowed to exist. 
We have a great deal of trouble in this country in getting good 
sweet milk to the factories, and this arises from a variety of 
causes, the principal of which is the retention of the animal 
heat in the normal condition of the milk, held there by the 
intense heat of the atmosphere, and tight milk can-slides. I 
am making experiments, and intend next season to test a can- 
slide, which will allow the animal heat to escape freely. There 
is also a general failure on the part of the patrons in keeping their 
milk-cans, can-slides, and pails clean and sweet. Tin pails ought 
invariably to be used. Milk might easily be cooled at the time of 
milking, by placing the can in a tub of cold water, changing the 
water two or three times. The best curing-rooms in this country 
are built of wood, and not plastered ; whether it would be the 
best method of building them in England would be best deter- 
mined by experiment. / can make more even and fine flavoured 
cheese from a private dairy than I can from a factor t/, and I have 
personally tried both. All the trouble with the English counties 
in making cheese is " they dont know how." If they would use 
American vats, and adopt the American system in making, they 
would fully equal the famed Cheddar cheese. A Scotchman of 
the name of M'Adam made cheese last season in Herkima county. 
New York, on the Cheddar plan, and was beaten by a neighbouring 
factory in sale of cheese. 
If you wish to put up a model factory I can send you next 
year a first class cheese-maker. 
Your obedient servant, 
John E. Chapman. 
Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, April 13, 1863. 
Mt dear Sir, — Your favour of the 10th February is received, 
having been forwarded to me at this place, where I shall be 
during the next eight months. 
In reply I will give you the statistics of some factories of my 
acquaintance, so far as I am possessed of the items. 
1st — Horr and Warner's Factory, Huntington, Lorain county, 
Ohio. Average number of cows 1000. Size of buildings — 
manufacturing-room, 30 feet by 40 feet; press-room, 14 feet by 
50 feet ; drying, or curing-house, 30 feet by J 00 feet, two stories 
high, besides basement. Cost of buildings, 2000 dollars. Ma- 
chinery, 1800 dollars, this includes vats, presses, boilers, &c. 
Capital invested about GOOO dollars, 1000 dollars of which is in 
land. Work people employed, four men at 8 dollars per week, 
O 2 
