struction and equipment of a factory, will be quite likely,
when B., C., and D. erect factories in his immediate
neighborhood, to hold his peace when sundry varieties of swill
milk are offered at his door, instead of speaking out an
equivocal protest against the insult thus offered to his
professional pride and sense of decency.

To the dairyman naturally given to slovenly and careless habits,
the restraint to which he might otherwise be subjected is
practically removed when nearly equi-distant from his place of
abode there are three or four factories, instead of one, and he
knows that if rejected at one place, he can without
inconvenience go to another, and thus it transpires that at five
factories in every ten there will be found a conspicuous absence
of thorough and inexorable discriminations which ought always to
prevail in the receipt of milk for factory purposes.

For this abuse there is, in our estimation, a remedy however
theoretical and visionary it may appear, and that is concert of
action and co-operation among factorymen. Men in all branches of
business, nowadays, associate with each other, and form
themselves into bodies for the purpose of closer union and
mutual protection, and when this is done for the general good,
as well as individual advancement, the purpose is laudable and
universally successful.

We know of no business in which the necessity of combination is
so great as that of cheese-making, and, what, let me ask, could
be more desirable and praiseworthy than an association of
cheese-makers, for the purpose of sending the swill milk of the
country to the hogs, where it belongs, instead of making it up,
as at present, for human consumption.

We have an idea that such an association might be successfully
formed, and that, when once in effectual operation, it might ask
the legislative body of its country to enact a law, entitled "An
Act for the suppression of swill milk, and for the general good
of mankind," in which it should be provided, among other things,
that in every case where a dairyman has left a factory on
account of having had his milk rejected for cause traceable to
his negligence, that in all such cases, the factory or factory
company knowingly receiving the milk of such rejected party,
shall be liable to some appropriate penalty.