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     CHEESE FACTORY 
     
     EAST POINT 
     
    
   
   
    
     The East Point Cheese Factory was built on the site where 
     
     Lyman Baker's mill is located. The following statement was taken 
     
     from the Charlottetown Guardian, dated April 3, 1901: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Total no. of lbs. of milk received for cheese and butter in 1900 
     
     was 1,100,611. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lbs. of cheese made 93,432 
     
     Gross value of cheese $9,418.32 
     
     Net value of cheese $7,459.59 
     
     Milk required to make 10.29 lbs. 
     
     1 lb. of cheese 7,206 
     
     Gross value of butter $1,532.60 
     
     Net value to patrons $1,224.11 
     
     Milk required to make 
     
     1 1b. of butter 19.10 lbs. 
     
     Per cent of fat 4.2 
     
     Sec'y—Treas. - Hon. Lauchlan MacDonald 
     
    
   
   
    
     Red Point Lot 47 Cheese Factory 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Cheese Factory at Red Point was built in 1900. The 
     
     last year it functioned was in 1920 when the cream separators were 
     
     coming into use. T. S. Robertson was Sec'y—Treas. and two of 
     
     the Directors were J. C. Campbell and J. J. Campbell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Milk Haulers Lot 47 
     
    
   
   
    
     Eugene Fay East Baltic 
     
     William Young Kingsboro 
     
    

    
     Charles Young Basin Head 
     
     Emanual Sutherland Black Pond 
     
     Oswald Stewart Kingsboro 
     
    

    
     Alex. MacDonald, North Side 
     
     Joe Moran East Baltic 
     
    
   
   
    
     The factory opened on the lst day of June and closed the 
     
     2nd of November. There were 85 patrons. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A statement for the season 1903 shows that: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The average price for.cheese was 10.ll¢ per 1b. 
     
     The average price for milk was 74.88¢ per 100 wt.