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produce an article which should soon be ripe and ready enough 
to pass muster in the New York market, without reference to 
its fitness to stand the test of shipment. 
Your July make of cheese was also much complained of on 
the same grounds, of looseness’and want of solidity, but the 
flavor of both the June and July cheeses was purer and clean¬ 
er than it had been for the previous three years. It was also 
rich and full of quality. This purity of flavor helped in some 
degree to atone for the want of solidity, and altogether the 
quality was much to be preferred to the hot, rank flavor of 
the July make of 1868, which so greatly disgusted English 
consumers, and inflicted such heavy losses on shippers. The 
August, September, and some of the early October cheeses 
were really fine. It was pure and true in flavor, much more 
solid and close than the two previous months’ make, and of 
finer curd and texture than any former season. Of the latter 
made cheese, where the milk was not skimmed, and where 
proper attention was paid to the temperature of the cheese- 
room, some dairies turned out a quality equal to the best of the 
whole season ; but even at its best, this sort is not very desir¬ 
able for shipment. It does not stand the deteriorating influ¬ 
ence of the English climate nearly so well as the earlier make. 
To sum up, I would say that the whole season’s make shows 
a decided improvement in the average quality and a larger propor¬ 
tion of really choice cheese than in any former year. 
I have already said that the price of American cheese rated 
very high at the opening of the season. There was an eager 
competition among English dealers for the earliest arrivals. 
Prices were consequently forced up beyond their legitimate 
level, and in the reaction that inevitably followed, were cor¬ 
respondingly depressed. The excellent quality of your May 
make somewhat checked the downward tendency, but when 
poor June cheese reached the market, values fell rapidly, and 
for two months the trade was most unprofitable for all con¬ 
cerned in the buying and shipping of your product. At last 
the price touched a point that brought on a larger consumption 
of American cheese. The heavy shipments of June and July 
