Poetry · Chapter
Facts About Cheese explained
A short poem encouraging dairymen during a period of low cheese prices, suggesting that prices will soon rise and that the abundance of milk and cream is a sign of prosperity.
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A short poem encouraging dairymen during a period of low cheese prices, suggesting that prices will soon rise and that the abundance of milk and cream is a sign of prosperity.
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- Agriculture and Rural Economy
The poem directly addresses the economic challenges faced by dairymen and the hope for a recovery in cheese prices.
Key passages
“Price soon will rise, though now ’tis low, And brooks of milk will onward flow; Were it collected in one stream There would be floods of milk and cream.”
Although cheese prices are currently low, they will soon increase, and the abundant milk supply, if gathered together, would create floods of milk and cream.
The poet reassures dairymen that the current low prices are temporary and that the region's dairy production is plentiful.
