,80 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
knowing how much it costs to make a pound of cheese. In giving its cost 
from our standpoint we shall differ somewhat from others who operate in 
different locations where fuel, salt, labor, &c., may be higher or lower. Our 
estimate will be upon one hundred pounds, made in a factory with an aver¬ 
age capacity ol five hundred pounds daily. 
Labor for making one hundred pounds of Cheese. 60 Cents 
Salt “ «. . 5 " 
Rennet “ „ . ” 2 
Annotto “ ,, •< 6% 
Bandage •• fc „ »< *' ..4 
Grease and scaleboard . „c 
Boxes for one hundred pounds of cheese...... 
Fuel for making one hundred pounds ot cheese. 
Interest, wear and tear on cost of factory.; . .. 
To guarantee goods that may be poor from unavoid ble cau.„e 10 
Delivery to depot...- ••; • • • •••.•••• ‘ ,n 
Cost of marketing, collecting and disbursing.• 
Insurance on building and contents. •• ' 
Total.. 
In this estimate there is nothing but the actual cost set down. Should 
the manufacturer get $ 2.50 per one hundred pounds, which we believe to 
be the prevailing price, he has a margin of thirty-six and a half cents, 
which would amount to $ 1 . 82 £ per day, or $666.12^ per year. 
There are some things in connection with the establishment of fac¬ 
tors for the manufacture of cheese that are usually over looked, which we 
will mention as justifying the manufacturer in demanding this profit and 
even more. 
First, we mention the precariousness of his investment. He is com¬ 
pletely in the hands of the milk producers, his buildings and fixtures are 
good for nothing without milk. Should war or any other unforseen thing occur 
that would make grain, beef or sheep raising more profitable, the farmer 
will turn his attention to that, and the factorymen’s investment is gone. 
Should a railroad pass through the neighborhood, creating (as it has in 
three or four instances in our own neighborhood,) a more central place for 
a factory the old one must go down. In many instances competing fac- 
torys are built, encouraged by the farmer, that they may get a place nearer 
by, where they may take their milk, thus cutting off the supply of milk 
and reducing the old factory so low that his profits are all gone. This was 
the case with the Sherwin and Webster factory; it was the same with 
factory “A” and factory “B,” also the Switzer factory, all within five mil es 
of this city. And we think could safely say of the thirty-six factorys that 
are within ten miles of this city that not more than one-half are paying in¬ 
stitutions. And, to speak of the men that have been first and foremost in 
