stures down to
good, substantial three-legged milking stools, and labor
incessantly from sunrise until sundown, that their barns may be
in perfect order and everything connected with the business neat
and clean, in order that their material may come into the hands
of the manufacturer in a perfect condition--if heedless, lazy,
shiftless, dishonest, ignorant, good-for-nothing D. keeps about
him a herd of sick, disconsolated racks-of-bones, to wander over
his arid and desolate fields in search of food and drink in
summer, or with backs humped up, hover together for shelter
under the lea of a wheat-straw stack, their only food in winter,
and using a kit of dairying tools, the very best article of
which is an old, water-soaked, dirty wooden pail, drawing his
whey from the factory in the old, rusty, time-embattled milk
cans, in which it is allowed to stand until the next milking,
and which, after an imperfect washing, and refilled and returned
to the factory, freighted with a compound sufficiently poisoned
to nullify and undo the best efforts of a hundred A., B., and
C's. It may be theorizing and visionary to talk of a time when
the spirit of co-operation shall have driven such fellows out of
the dairying business, to betake themselves with a pick-ax and
spade to the ditch, but that such a time may come ought to be
the earnest prayer of every thorough-going friend of
co-operation in the land.

It may seem like castle building and an unprofitable waste of
time to indulge in theories and construct plans by which the
rivalry among factorymen may be kept within a limit sufficiently
circumscribed to prevent the fear of loss of patronage from
interfering with, and lowering the standard of, our cheese. It
is too often the case, nowadays, that factorymen are deterred
from a full and complete discharge of their duty to themselves,
their patrons, and the world in general, by a fear, by no means
groundless, that a bold and upright course with regard to the
material brought to them will result in a damaging, if not
entire loss, of their occupation.

The unwise extent to which men have gone in the erection of
cheese factories, has increased competition to an extent
decidedly prejudicial to the interest of the cheese-consuming
world. A., having invested his entire capital in the
con