Certainly the co-operative organisation of cheese-making
presents no difficulties whatever. Switzerland and the
Netherlands supply evidence of this, not to mention our
own Derbyshire. And there is very good reason why our
co-operating cow-keepers should in suitable districts
turn their attention to it a great deal more than they
have hitherto done.
lOO CO-OPERATION IN AGRICULTURE.
However the great future of co-operative dairying
appears now to lie in the supply of populous places
with new milk of superior quality, capable of being
guaranteed — coupled with the sale of cream and of such
by-products .as have already been mentioned, so far as
the public may take to them. The pubhc value a supply
of sound, sweet, hygienic milk. The remarkable effect
of providing such a supply has already been shown in the
case of Basel. And the "faculty" rightly do their best
to develop such fastidious taste — which is not really all
fastidiousness, because medicine has not a little to say
to the matter, and medical directions for the preparation
of nursery and invalids' milk are becoming more and
more numerous.
Sale of milk on co-operative lines, that is, compre-
hending large quantities, is practicable in two ways.
