ng in the work of producing
milk for factory purposes.

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There may be times when peculiar atmospheric conditions will
exert unfavorable influences, and seasons when drought and wet
weather will produce changes, over which human efforts have no
control, and for these sufficient allowance must be made. We
quarrel with the stupidity, shiftlessness, and ignorance of men,
and not with the providence of God.

In this day and age of the world there is no excuse for
ignorance upon the points to which we have alluded. Wisdom
uttereth her voice in the streets, and he who will not hear her
ought to be drummed out of the camp of dairymen. As a rule, a
common carpenter puts more thought into his business in a month
than many dairymen do in a year. Indeed, it would be difficult
to point out a single branch of human industry, of one-half the
magnitude which the manufacture and sale of cheese has reached,
carried on in a manner so slipshod and slovenly as dairying.

The banker, the columns of whose ledger fail by one cent of
balancing, spares neither time nor money in searching out and
correcting the error; the merchant brings to bear upon his
business a care and insight so unceasing and laborious that his
locks are soon sprinkled with premature silver; the machinist
works to plans from which the variation of a thousandth part of
an inch can not be allowed to pass uncorrected; but the dairyman
too often stumbles along through his work without thought, or
employs the little intellect he has in putting in and harvesting
his crops, leaving the dairy in the meantime to take care of
itself. There are too many men engaged in dairying who can see
nothing in the business beyond the factory dividend; men to whom
filling the milk pail and the can are the Alpha and Omega of
life. To such men such a thing as an ambition that their county,
town, or neighborhood shall attain and hold a reputation for
being the banner cheese district of the State or nation, is as
thoroughly unknown as the configuration of the bottom of the
Dead sea.

In saying what we have about the patrons of cheese factories,
and the closer and more thorough co-operation among them, we
have been actuated by no feelings of unkindness or ill will, nor
have we arraigned them upon trivial