Most of these men are tenant farmers, and reference is sure to be made to the price of cheese, and the forthcoming local agricultural show.
This old market town has been noted for generations as a great cheese centre.

It is not, perhaps, the most convenient situation for such a market, and its population is inconsiderable; but the trade is, somehow or other, a tradition of the place, and traditions are hard to shake.

Efforts have been made to establish rival markets in towns nearer to the modern resorts of commerce, but in vain.

The attempt has always proved a failure, and to this day the prices quoted at this place rule those of the adjoining counties, and are watched in distant cities.

The depression made itself felt here in a very practical manner, for prices fell to such an extent that the manufacture of the old style of cheese became almost a dead loss.