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little. When you send a bushel of wheat to New York if 
perchance that bushel of wheat goes to Europe and sells for a 
certain price, which we will say will be there two dollars a 
bushel, you only get about one-half that price in dollars. You 
lose one-half of the’price paid in the great markets of the 
world. This of course varies with a varying market. When 
we of Central New York send our cheese to Europe, we find 
that the price it brings there is not more than ten per cent, 
more than that given for it at home. In other words, we get 
for it in England, all but ten per cent, of what it brings. 
Then, too, there is another consideration that counts very 
much in our favor. It is almost the only agricultural product 
that does not lose its value by the lapse of time. Beef can be 
raised more profitably in some respects than even cheese can, 
at home. But then it is an article heavy of transportation. 
You are obliged to carry it at great cost, and a great deal of if 
is worthless in the form of brine, barrels, etc. This is not true 
of our dairies. That is another advantage which you have. 
You find then that it is not often that a barrel of flour can 
travel much farther than New York. Sometimes it can travel 
as far as England, but there it stops. But when we send the 
products of our labor to Europe, when it gets to England the 
cost of transportation is so low that the English merchant takes 
it and sends it to the Mediterranean and Baltic to the persons 
who are accustomed to use it as an article of food. It is an 
essential article of food in Europe to a much larger degree than 
it is in this country. We can make it cheaper than they can, 
and therefore we can undersell them. 
There is another fact I wish to call your attention to, and 
that is, it is the cheapest food in the world. If you take the 
nutriment of a pound of cheese and compare it with other 
food, you will see that it exceeds in nutrition any other article 
of food. You may sell a pound of cheese for something more 
than you would a pound of beef, but when you come to New 
York you will find that a pound of beef costs more than a 
pound of cheese. Therefore it is of great value to the popu- 
