d thin, when
heaped together presented a spectacle that would now bring a
smile upon the countenance of the most sober and dignified
cheese-maker in the State.

The condition of the market at that time was quite as crude and
irregular as the system, or rather the want of system, in
manufacturing. There was no cable, no regular reports from the
great business centers of the land, no regularly organized
boards of trade, railroads not as numerous, less daily papers
were in circulation, and many other circumstances which left the
seller comparatively at the mercy of the buyer, and the purchase
and sale of a dairy was conducted upon principles similar to
those usually practiced in a horse trade.

The great changes which since that day have taken place in the
dairying world are due chiefly to a division of labor, the
introduction of system and co-operation. Our machinery, we are
sorry to say, is not yet quite perfect in all its parts, and
does not move with the precision and harmony of the orchestra,
to which we have already alluded. Yet, although still in its
infancy, it has already produced and does annually produce
results grand indeed.

If we take a glance at the various industries at which men are
to-day engaged, intellectual, commercial, and mechanical, the
painstaking exactitude everywhere practiced will be found to be
a growing subject of wonder and admiration. The secret of this
lies in the fact that perfection in any department of business
not only enlarges that business but also enriches those engaged
in it. For example: there are perhaps ten times as many watches
manufactured in the world to-day as at any other period in its
history. It is a profitable business, or men would not engage in
it, and the superhuman effort that is being continually put
forth to increase the value, by making as perfect an article as
human power can produce, establishes conclusively the assertion
that there is always a profit in doing well. I am glad to
observe that in the cheese industry of the United States and
Canada, the light of this truth has to some extent aroused the
slumbering dairymen. To quote from the Utica Herald of Sept. 11,
1883: "It is estimated that about 700,000 men are employed in
this business, in one capacity or another, and that about
15,000,000 cows are use