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men as to the inferiority of their goods, and to raise serious doubt 
in their minds as to whether cheese could be marketed at anything 
like living rates. Nesbith spoke of the difficulties of trade and the 
pressure of the money market. He was undecided and not exactly 
prepared to purchase, though sometimes in exceptional cases he was 
prevailed upon to buy small lots at low figures. By the time he 
got through his visitation the dairymen were feeling somewhat dis¬ 
couraged and were ardently hoping to see some other buyer. Then 
the festive Ferris made his appearance, and his off-hand, rushing 
way of doing business carried the conviction that he was a reckless 
operator. His prices were considerably higher than those offered 
by Nesbith, and the dairymen fell into the trap and sold their 
goods, wondering if the buyer was thoroughly posted in relation to 
the market. 
In 1826, Henry Burrell, of Herkimer county, then a young man 
full of enterprise and courage, having learned something of the 
markets and the game played by Nesbith and Ferris, “stole a 
march ” on these skillful operators, buying a large share of the 
cheese at a price above that figured by the Massachusetts firm He 
afterwards became the chief dealer in dairy goods in central New 
York, often purchasing the entire product of cheese made in the 
United States. He was the first to open a cheese trade with Eng¬ 
land, commencing shipping as a venture about 1830 to 1832, at the 
suggestion of the late Erastus Corning, of Albany. The first ship¬ 
ment was about 10,000 pounds. 
He was the first, also, to send cheese to Philadelphia, shipping to 
B. & B. Cooper in 1828, and to Jonathan Palmer in 1830 and 1832. 
Mr. Burrell is still in the trade, though nearly eighty years of age, 
and has shipped cheese abroad every year during the past fifty 
years, his shipments the present summer (1876) being about 1,000 
boxes a week. He is among the few American dealers who have 
amassed a colossal fortune in the trade, and by his strict integrity 
and honest dealing has ever retained the confidence of dairymen. 
In tracing the history of cheese dairying in other states, I find 
the emigration of Herkimer county dairymen often gave these new 
localities the first impetus to this branch of industry—thus leading 
the way more easily to the introduction of the factory system. 
Crossing the line into Canada, we find Harvey Farrington, an old 
Herkimer county dairyman, in 1864-5, leading the way by building 
