CHEESE AND BUTTER FACTORY.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 19, 13 June 1872, Page 3

CHEESE AND BUTTER FACTORY.

The American system of cheese-factories was established rteiulv twenty years ago, and in its present condition of maturity it rctai h nil the essential features which were ch.iracuri.itic of us infancy. 'I he test of twenty veats' experience in a country where apparent improvements ure eagerly submitted to si fair trial in amply sufficient to prove the success of the system. Recently the question of it« adapt'bilit* to English dairy d strict* has acquired considerable proritiriei.ee in agricultural circles, and in now pacing from the stage < f discussion to that of experiment. The two great merit* which ure claimed for it are economy in the labour of production, and superiority of quality in the produce it is evidcnt.that if a dozen farmers coiivci their miik to one building (a factory) obe ma e into c eex'e or butter, fewer hand* ure required to perform the work than if the process were carried on at u dozen different places by as many acts of people. The factory can be furnished with better labour-saving machinery than the farm dairy, and the former establishment requires no u.ore supervision thiin the hitter. The process of" cheese-making, also, occupies [tractically the same length of time, whether the quantity of milk under treatment be large or srriull, so thfit two or three persons whose energies are concentrated at one place wiil produce as great an economic result as a dozen or more who are necessarily employed at as many different point-, each one going through the mime routine independently of the other. The superiority of the quality of the manufactured article may be more difficult of explanation, for the bes' farm dairies produce us good cheese as arty factory. The reason why the establishment of lactones has improved the average make of cheese is because fewer li st rate cheese-makers are required under the factory «\stem. But when Mr Jesse Williams established the first factory twenty years ago. the great bulk ot American cheese was extreme y poor, and for many years after it was almost unsaleable in the liluglish market. At the present, day, on the contrary, it can compete on even terms with all but the very choicest of English makes, notwithstanding that it. has to undergo the ordeal of a long sea-voyage. The factory system, therefore, has not only improved the average quality of American cheese, but it haw very considerably raised the standard ol the choicest brands. The "American Dairymen's Association," is organised on a plan similar to that of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and like that institution holds an annual ' convention," at which papers are read and lectures delivered. The annual report gi>es a mass of most valuable informal! 11 eoncer. i> g dairying, which it would be well to procure for our country libraries, with instructions for the early ripening of cheese and making it more marketable, eonduetid on scientific principles. The great success of these factories in America has led to the establishment of similar ones in England, and their general introduction in the colonies must be productive of the best results.

Darwin, tlie greatest naturalist of the day, hits been experimenting' on the influences of bees in causing Ihe growth of clover grasses. One hundred stalks of white clover were planted and bees allowed access to them, and the result was that 2209 seeds were produced by the plants. Twenty other stalks were net out in the locality and subjected to the same ti entment, except that they were protected from the bees, and not a single productive need was yielded. One thousand stalks of red clover were set out, from which bees were allowed to gather honey, and they y'eided 270<> seeds; while from the same number, which bees were i:o!< allowed to aj proach, no productive seeds were gathered. There is to be another international fouroared boat-race between America and England this coming summer, to be rowed on the Thames. The Atalanta Club were the challengers. The Americans will row with out a coxswain, the English crew to row with or without a coxswain as they please. A young lady at Council Bluffs being informed by her "feller" that he intended to cease his attentions, eowhided him around the room, and, as he sprung through the open window, told him, with n. parting lick, that that would teach him to be j more careful for the future not to trifle with a j gentle and loving heart.