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for making these cheeses can be secured from your state agricultural
experiment station, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, or from the Dairy
Goat Journal, Fairbury, Nebraska.

It is well for the amateur to begin with soft cheeses such as cottage, cream
and Neufchatel, as these are easy to learn to make. The first thing to know
about making cheese is that your does must test pretty high in butter fat or
you cannot make a quality cheese. Good cheese simply cannot be made with
poor quality milk.

Where is the market for goat cheese? If you already have a market for milk,
everyone of your customers is a prospect for cheese. Take samples to your
regular customers when you deliver your milk. Also place samples in the
stores in your locality.

Advertise locally and don’t forget to have some signs on the roads
approaching your dairy as well as a large sign on the dairy itself. Passing
motorists are frequently good prospects. Your neighbors, your friends, and
the friends of your friends are all prospects for your products. Tell them
about the value of goat milk and cheese. If you make good cheese, “tell the
world about it”—word-of-mouth advertising moves a great deal of
merchandise.

A Different Kind of Poultry Farm

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CHICKEN farm, organized along factory lines, has been a great success in
the East. This poultry farm near Cockeysville, Maryland, covers only one
acre of ground. The 61,000 chickens handled by this farm would require 610
acres if they were being raised and fed in the usual manner. On this farm,
however, the chickens never touch the ground—never go outdoors. They live
in tiers of wire cages, in large, air-conditioned, disinfected, thermostatically
heated and cooled, photoelectrically-lighted rooms. There are no nests for the
2,500 laying hens, as the cages are so arranged that eggs, when laid, roll
down into a little rack outside. Here the eggs are picked up by attendants on