Dairying has a long and distinguished history. The passage above comes from J. Twaley, Dairying Exemplified, or The Business of Cheesemaking (London, 1784) p. 18, courtesy of Google Books.
Note the assumption that daries were run by women. Historically, milking cows and the associated dairy production was considered “women’s work,” inappropriate for men. Thus well into the industrial revolution, women held a monopoly on dairying that provided skilled employment. However, according to Deborah Simonton (A History of European Women’s Work: 1700 to the present, New York: Routledge, 1998, p. 122) by the late 1800s in most of Europe dairying had become the province of men in factories.
