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and in South America, but there are only a comparatively few 
sections so well adapted to the dairy. You have the sweet 
hilly pastures of Vermont and western Massachusetts, the 
luxuriant, w^ell-watered hills of the Mohawk valley and the 
central counties of New York, the deep lands of the western 
reserve in Ohio, but where else can you find lands so eminently 
adapted to the dairy ? And what other product, except the 
exhaustive process of the grain-growing west, what other pro¬ 
duct is so well calculated to meet the demands of the home 
and foreign market as the products of the dairy ? 
Now for making a specialty of the dairy a certain extent of 
good pasturage is essential. Grood cattle are essential and good 
management of cattle, especially dairy cows, is essential. 
The cheese factory system now thoroughly established in 
many parts of the country, has come in to relieve the house¬ 
hold of the great objection of this branch of labor, and to add 
to the aggregate value in the improved quality of the product. 
He knew of no branch of farming, which under judicious 
management, promises such favorable results in a pecuniary 
point of view as the dairy, but then it is exacting and requires 
that all other work should be subordinate to it, and that the 
course of cropping should be directed to the supply of the 
largest amount of feeding substance for winter use and 
the provision of good shelter for cows. And as an en¬ 
couragement to the further development and perfection of the 
cheese factory system, the home market system is gradually 
improving as the great nutritive value of cheese, as an article 
of food, is becoming better known, while the foreign English 
and French markets are brought almost to our doors with an 
almost exhaustless demand for an article of high quality and 
at remunerative prices. And more important still, the market 
in California and the great Chinese empire is but just opened 
to the enterprise of the western farmers. The demand in Chi¬ 
na alone, for goods of medium quality, will offer inducements 
enough to make it an object to carry the factory system to the 
highest degree of production throughout the dairy sections of 
the west. 
