d to furnish the one product of milk. The
returns from this product are over $800,000,000. The total
amount of capital invested in dairying in the United States is
estimated to reach the enormous sum of $2,000,000,000." In
consulting these figures we hope there is no person so dense of
understanding as to entertain for a moment the idea that had the
old system of every man his own cheese-maker prevailed that
anything approaching this grand result would ever have been
attained. Never. The concert or effort attained in the factory
system is the key note to this grand, soul-inspiring chorus.

But an experience of twenty-five years in the dairy industry
leads me to the conclusion that in the music of our business
there is yet much discord. The dairymen and factorymen fail to
understand the spirit of the piece we are attempting to perform,
and fail to catch the idea that individual profit and prosperity
depend upon the success of the business as a whole. No chain is
stronger than its weakest link, and so long as there remains a
slovenly dairyman in the business just so long our system will
be incomplete and the working of co-operation remain imperfect.
Perfect concert of effort, unbroken unity of hand with hand, in
all the various details of the business, reaching down to the
most unimportant items in the production of milk and the making
of cheese, will produce in the long run the most profitable and
permanent results to the individual as well as to the community.

"But," say some, "there is too much of the millennium, too much
of theory, too much of the unattainable, in all this." To such I
answer that there is much of the millennium, much of theory, and
much of the unattainable in the Sermon on the Mount, and yet our
Divine Master preached it, nevertheless.

It may perhaps be considered chimerical and theorizing to talk
of a time when there will be no such persons among dairymen as
what are known to the cheese-maker as a skimmer or stripper, but
we hope such a time will come, nevertheless.

To what purpose do A., B., and C., and a score of other
industrious, honest, painstaking fellows, exert themselves to
collect a model dairy, sparing neither time nor expense in
providing themselves with perfect sets of improved appurtenances
for those dairies, from rich, well-watered pa