Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1871-03-10


chimes have been devised TO make tn,
farmers out door labor easier. his wife
has been obliged to drudge along in The
same old way. The care of even small
number Of cows, shy Tour or six, the
butter and cheese, anu all the wearisome
details OF the business has been, and Il,
breaking down the health of our farmers
wives. They are oyerwUrked and sick,
and with sickness there is no happiness OF
physical comfort. Where the milk goes
OF To the factory, the wife and daughters
are relieved of its care, they have more
time TO spend in the flower garden, more
To devote to the intellectual and social en-
ioymentS OF life. aud rhere is more con-
tcntmcnt, and less desire to leave home
and engage in other occupations. What
ever brings relief from hard work 10 the
tarmeis' wife, tends To make his home
happier and his daughters ami sons more
contcntcd (and if the daughters stay Al
home the sons willl should he emploTed,
even ut considerable sacrifice.
Next to this-and by some placed
above it's the Tact that by the factory
method of cheese making, uniformity of
product and a superior quality arc always
secured. Cheese is strictly manuIactur
ell product. and the art OF making il is
one that needs 10 be constantly and care.
fully studied The quality ol family
made cheese is never uniform, Condi.
items about which the makers know
little, and to which they have given no
study, affect the quality of the product,
and hardly any two are alike. Some
families. it i true, have the reputation Tor
making superior cheese, but even the
best sometimes fail. Hence the great
variation in the market price OF homo
made cheese. In hundred thousand
pounds of factory made cheese, not even
the most acute expert can detect any
difference in its qualify. Such quantity
OF cheese, OF uniform size, Of quality in
which no variation can be detected. will
of course command u higher price than
the came amount from family dairics, he.
cause in the latter case an allowance is
always made by the purchaser of those of
imperfect quality. Mr.. Willard SAYS that
factory cheese generally sells at 4 price
above that of single diaries. equal to the
whole cost of manufacturing.
Again, an advau, agc ct the factory
system is found in the saving of tine.
trouble aud expense in marketing the
product \ farmer who produces from
five u seven hundred pounds OF cheese
anuually-morc or lcSs-rcquires cunsid-
cradle time 10 market il. lie must haul
il 10 The country store or have it trans
Iog,cd 10 The city. and before il is all
sold, TWO or three days time arc consum.
ed On the other hand The whole
amount made from three hundred COWS
or even thousand eau be bargaincd for
and sold at actually less expense then in
the case Just stated. There i also n
saving which must not DC overlooked, in
the purchasing of materials at Wholesale.
such as bandages. boxes. salt. and what
ever enters into the manufacture
of cheese. With some families il is the
pract ice 10 make butter during the spring
and fall. making cheese during the hot
weather or coul Sc there is mere or less
trouble and expense in changing from
one to the other and in keeping on hand
Two sets OF utensils All this is avoided
in The factory system, one course is
pursued the season through. consequent.
~ the expense is less and the profits
uniform.
There are. OF course, some objections
to the factory system; no plan of doing
anything has ever yet been deyised which
secures all the advantages with no dis.
advantages. But the system secures
more OF the former and less of the latter
than any way of changing the product of
COWS into money that has yet been studied
out. The difficulty of detecting adulter
ated milk. The liability OF milk to sonr
while conveying it to the factory from
considerable distances, the loss Of the
whey, &c, are some of these objections
1t Is, however, strong argument in sup
port OF the factory system. that in spite
of them, it has been constantly increasing
and extending throughout the dairy por
ITEMS of our country.