cheese and butter factories. We will give it
in full, and follow next week with some account of the discussions.

CO-OPERATIVE CHEESE-MAKING.

In all human efforts, grand results have been attained chiefly
by concert of action.

In our own time, everything is done by co-operation. Railways
across continents, canals uniting oceans and seas, bridges
almost of fabulous proportions, enterprises in engineering and
commerce, never before known, evince the extent to which modern
genius is availing itself of concert of effort in testing human
capacity.

There is a visible tendency in all branches of business toward
co-operation and centralization.

In looking down upon a large city, the unity visible even in the
diversity of human affairs manifests itself in a manner truly
wonderful. The air is literally filled with a vast net-work of
wire, crossing and re-crossing in every conceivable direction,
and over these, backward and forward, the thoughts of men are
made to vibrate with the speed of lightning, in the elaboration
and consummation of thousands of business schemes, and the air,
as well as the buildings and streets, is full of human activity
and enterprise. The lawyer, sitting comfortably at his desk in
his office, talks with his banker, physician, grocer, a hundred
clients, and his family, all seated like him himself at home, or
at their various places of business. Thus is the telephone made
the instrument of human co-operation and concert of action.

It is now less than thirty years since dairymen stumbled into
the practice of co-operation in the business of making-cheese.
Previous to that time cheese-making in this country was, to say
the least, a crude affair. Every farmer ran his own factory,
according to his own peculiar notion, and disposed of his
products as he could "light on" chaps. In that day,
cheese-making was guess work and hap-hazard. To-day it is a
science. Then there were as many rules and methods as there were
men. To-day the laws which nature has enacted, to govern the
process of converting milk into cheese, are codified, and
cheese-making has become a profession. In that day the
accumulated results of the cheese industry of a neighborhood or
township was a sight to behold--all manner of circular blocks,
of concentrated error, large and small, thick an