Archive image from page 540 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 ORIGIN OF CHEESE-FACTORIES IN AMERICA. 467 it from ouv neig-libours ? Mr. Williams found that the products of milk in the neighbourhood averaged about 5 cents a pound for cheese fresh from the hoop, or an equivalent in butter, no allowance being made for the labour involved. Here was a fair margin for business, providing the milk could be obtained on this basis, and also ]\Irs. 'Williams made up at the farm the milk of IfiO cows, and be
Archive image from page 540 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 ORIGIN OF CHEESE-FACTORIES IN AMERICA. 467 it from ouv neig-libours ? Mr. Williams found that the products of milk in the neighbourhood averaged about 5 cents a pound for cheese fresh from the hoop, or an equivalent in butter, no allowance being made for the labour involved. Here was a fair margin for business, providing the milk could be obtained on this basis, and also ]\Irs. 'Williams made up at the farm the milk of IfiO cows, and before the summer closed j)ledges enough for the next year were secured to warrant the erection of buildings suitable to handle the milk of 300 or 400 cows. A co- partnership was at once formed between Jesse Williams and his sons George and De Witt; JESSE WILLIAMS, FOUNDER OF CHEESE-FACTORIES. providing he could sell all the cheese he could make under the contract at 7 cents. The project being submitted to the contractors, they assented, stipulating that all should be of ' the Williams standard.' The neighbours were next negotiated with, and a number found willing to sell and deliver the milk upon the basis above named, being glad enough to be rid of the labour and vexations of the dairy work at home and the uncertainties of sales. Thus, during the season of 1851, Mr. and 62 springs near the homestead were leased, buildings erected, and at the opening of the season of 1852, the original Williams Factory commenced operations. De Witt managed the general farm- ing, while Jesse Williams and George, with their wives, devoted themselves to the factory and its work. That season the family held 70 cows, and they purchased the milk of 290 more. From its start the factory proved a success, and this was largely due to the high quality of its pnxluet. That, iu turn, is attributed by the family to the
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