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THUMB NAIL SKETCH:
THE CORNWALL CHEESE AND BUTTER BOARD
By H. M. STILES
HE Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board is the largest organized Dairying
Industry in Canada. It has a quota membership of some forty
odd factories and some two thousand patrons. Its clientele
covers a territory estimated at three hundred and fifty square miles. Its
scope includes practically all of the most important factories from the Quebec
boundary line to the east, to the village of Aultsville in the west. Its furthermost
northerly point is Moose Creek, and all factories between that point
extending over the two counties of Stormont and Glengarry to the St. Lawrence
River are members of the Cornwall Cheese Board or subject to its
rulings.
The Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board disburses nearly $1,250,000
annually. Each week during the season the buyers and sellers in the Cornwall
Town Hall sell an average amount of $60,000 worth of cheese. This
money is given a general circulation in Cornwall and throughout tributary
territory.
The Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board is recognized as the biggest, most
vital individual factor in the industrial prosperity of Cornwall and its environs.
Business men and others are quick to recognize and acknowledge this fact.
The part played by the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board in the great
World War, in supplying the gallant boys in the Allies' trenches in France and
Flanders with the best cheese in the world, will never be adequately known or
properly appreciated. It IS known to have been a tremendous one.
The most prosperous, as well as the most humble, farmer is a patron
of one or another of the factories holding membership on the Cornwall Cheese
and Butter Board. No regular membership fees are exacted, the Board being
operated at a nominal cost, the money from the sale of cheese going directly
into the pockets of the farmers.
The Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board deserves and receives the cordial
support of its patrons and members. The Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board
patrons deserve and receive the enthusiastic recognition of the business man
and others with whom they come in contact and do business.
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