An Average Rule to Judge of Cheese

An average rule it will be found / Ten pounds of milk will nmke one pound / Of cheese, will sell in numbers round / Wholesale at ten cents a pound.

In season, factory can with ease / Make quarter million pounds of cheese, / Which doth sum up the figures grand / In dollars, twenty-five thousand.

Judge of the stream of milk doth flow / To factories in Ontario, / Where they number one thousand / Scattered o'er this fair, fertile land.

One company hath branches near / Makes o'er one million pounds a year;

They fill an order in a trice / And thus obtain a higher price.

So quickly they can make car load / To fill an order from abroad;

Advantage cheese has over grain / In shipping it across the main.

It is great saving in the freight, / Its value is six times as great / Each pound, as barley, wheat or peas, / So it pays best to ship the cheese.