HARBOUR CONE CHEESE FACTORY, PENINSULA.

Thia factory ia of timber, erected upon leased ground, on the plan adopted by the Pioneer Company. The plant and its capacity are also similar to those of the Pioneer, and the {Cheddar avkole milk process is followed. It was atarted la3t season, the patronß being Alesars William Allen, Robert Dick, John Draper, Robert Forbes, William Leslie, William Rogers, Thomas Scotc, James Rutherford, Edmund Ward, William Hunter, and George Bates, None of these shareholders reside over a mile and a-quarter from the factory. The milk, pure as it comes from tha cow, is sent to the factory morning and evening. Work was commenced with 110 gallons of milk per day, but it is now 150 _ gallons i Tho process carried out is precisely similar in all particulars to that adopted by the Pioneer,. an I the cheese ia said to be of tho same excellent quajity. The work i 3 cairiod on by MrEdmund Ward, assisted by a farmer's daugh-^ ter. The quantity of milk sent in by each. patron per day varies from five to 20 gallons. About 7cwt of cheese ia made par week, and there are about two tons on hand, some 18cwt having been sold. Lastseaaon Alessrs Esther and Low had from the Harbour Cone Factory about two and a-half tons of cheese, for which they paid 6_sd per lb.