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cerns us, is not altogether what England wants, or what she 
does not want; but in what way can we make the most money 
from our dairies ? 
ONE WAY TO INCREASE HOME CONSUMPTION OF CHEESE. 
Were I asked in what way home consumption could be 
rapidly promoted, I should say by the manufacture of smaller 
cheeses. 
What our people want to-day is a cheese weighing from ten 
to fifteen pounds, made in the Stilton shapes. And these shape* 
to a moderate extent could be exported, selling abroad at a 
higher rate than the 60 pound Cheddars. A few have been 
shipped to England the past season, outselling the Cheddar 
shapes of the same quality nearly 2 cts. per pound. But it is 
for home consumption that they are mostly desired. By a 
strange obtuseness, we run everything to suit the English mar¬ 
ket, and neglect the demands of our own people. Our habits 
here are in some respects different from the habits of the Brit¬ 
ish people. The cutting of cheese upon the block, and selling 
by the pennyworth, does not obtain with us to any extent. 
We want a cheese that everybody can buy without cutting. 
Dealers want something that they can sell whole, without ped¬ 
dling it out in pieces. There are thousands of persons every¬ 
where that would buy a ten pound cheese at 20 cts. costing 
only ^^2, that would not purchase one at 15 cts. costing $10. 
Persons neglect to eat cheese because of the difficulty of get¬ 
ting it in convenient shape. Poor people, or those in ^noder- 
ate circumstances, would often be induced to take a cheese 
costing $2, and thus would get in the habit of eating it. 
In England immense quantities of Dutch cheese are import¬ 
ed from Holland. The Edams are round, weighing only a 
few pounds, and an English dealer will tell you how popular 
they are with the working classes. 
r" Wherever I go I hear this complaint among the grocers, 
“We don’t like the business of cutting cheese. Give us 
something that we can sell in a lump without waste, and we 
can do a good trade with it.” 
