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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Now it would not cost any more to box such cheese, be¬ 
cause five or six could be put in one package. When at the 
west last fall, I found them making such cheeses and selling 
at 30 cts., and I believe if a portion of our factories and dairies 
would try the experiment they would find their profits in it. 
MILK-FARMING—CONDENSED MILK. 
There is another great branch of dairying springing up in 
this country—milk-farming. It is destined to assume vast 
proportions, and is to-day, doubtless, the most profitable branch 
of the dairy. Our cities and villages and manufacturing towns 
must be supplied with milk, and the question is every year 
becoming more important how to supply them. 
When I was in Elgin, Illinois, last winter, I found the Elgin 
condensed milk establishment putting up milk for the New 
York and Boston markets. This seemed to be rather singular, 
and the first conclusion I came to was, that the milk could be 
furnished so much cheaper at the west than at the east, that a 
good profit could be made by shipping it. 
I enquired into the business, and I found there was a profit— 
a profit that may surprise you as it did me. 
The condensed milk business is in its infancy, but the time 
is coming when an immense trade will be carried on in this 
commodity. 
But what is condensed milk? It is pure, fresh milk, from 
which 76 per cent, of water is taken out. It is simply retain¬ 
ing all the nutritive and valuable parts of the milk and ex¬ 
pelling three-fourths of its original volume in water, which js 
not valuable. It is pitting milk in a shape to be easily kept 
for months, so that it may be shipped from point to point and 
placed on sale without fear of deterioration, or like other long- 
keeping commercial products. Consumers who have used con¬ 
densed milk tell me they prefer it, even at a high price, to 
milk furnished by the milk dealers. They are sure of getting 
a pure article, an article that does not sour, and in which all 
the valuable properties of the milk are retained. 
