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jYo^e. — The above statement, showing results in the maniifacture 

 of this leading staple in this county, though valuable, is defective in 

 some particulars. He ought to have stated whether any means were 

 taken to mix in the cream which rises on the milk over night, so as 

 not to have it run off with the whey. Some dairymen heat it with 

 the milk and stir it in while hot. He should likewise have given the 

 weight of pressure on the cheese. But this may be easily comput- 

 ed. When the old fashioned press is used, which is by means of a 

 weight on one end of a lever, resting on the cheese-follower as a 

 fulcrum near the other end, the weight on the end should be multi- 

 plied by the number of times the shorter end of the lever is contain- 

 ed in the longer part, both measured from the point where it rests 

 upon the cheese, and adding twice the weight of the longer end of 

 the lever or stick itself. The more recent or improved presses are 

 generally constructed to press by the application of a lever or pulley, 

 and may be computed by the rules applicable to those powers. The 

 use of a thermometer ought to become more general than it is, and 

 would add much to the uniformity of the article and to the certainty 

 of experiments to ascertain the degree of heat required to obtain the 

 largest yield. A. 



KINGS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Report of the Committee on Farms and Grain. 



At a meeting of the Kings County Agricultural Society, held in Flat- 

 bush, July 2, 1842, Jeremiah Johnson, Garrit Kouenhoven and Garrit 

 Stryker, were appointed a committee on farms and grain on the part 

 of said Society for the county of Kings. 



On the 19th of July the committee inspected the wheat fields of 

 Mrs. Caton, of John Ditmars, of David Johnson, Adrian Vanderveere, 

 and Lott WyckofF, of the town of Flatbush, and of John Remsen of 

 the town of Flatlands, in said county. The committee found all the 

 fields ripe and the crops good. They decided that the field of wheat 

 of John Ditmars was the best; the yield reported at 40 bushels per 

 acre. 



On the 6th of October the committee inspected the farms of Lott 

 WyckofT, David Johnson, John Ditmars, Adrian Vanderveere, Nicho- 

 las Williamson and Samuel Smith, which severally contain above 75 

 acres, and the farm of Richard Cooper, containing 25 acres. The 

 committee decided that the farm of Lott WyckofF was the best cul- 

 tivated farm, and that Nicholas Williamson's was the second best; and 

 that the small farm of Richard Cooper was the best enclosed and cul- 

 tivated land in the county. 



On the seventeenth of October the committee inspected the corn 

 fields of Johannis Lott, of the Messrs. Elgeo, mid of Charles Betts, 

 and they decided that the field of Johannis Lott was the bett. 



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