# Facts About Cheese explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by James McIntyre.

## What happens

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.

## Themes in this chapter

### Agriculture and Rural Economy

The poem directly addresses the economic challenges faced by dairymen and the hope for a recovery in cheese prices.

## Key lines

> 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._

## Links

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