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2. In the warm weather of summer, the cheese-maker opens 

 the windows and sometimes the door of the curing-room at night, 

 and shuts them in the morning. The average curing-room is so 

 conditioned by the genius of the builder and the frolics of time, 

 that the closing of the doors and the shutters over the windows 

 during the daytime, does not require all the pure fresh air to 

 remain outside. It leaves the cheeses to be cured in the dark con- 

 tinuously, and that is not wholesome. 



3 In the cool weather of autumn, a stove is generally used in 

 the curing-room, without any provision being made for causing 

 the heated air to circulate evenly through every part of the room. 

 Consequently the cheeses on the shelves near the stove are often 

 kept at a temperature of 80°, while the cheeses in the parts 

 remote from the stove, are perhaps at a temperature of 50°. 



Improvement by Insulation. 



The curing-room should be an insulated room, so constructed 

 that the outside temperature would not necessarily affect its con- 

 tents. For this purpose insulation means the construction of the 

 walls, floor, and ceiling of the room in such a way that heat will 

 not go through readily. For the storage of butter, the walls of 

 the room should be so insulated that the temperature inside will 

 not be more than 34% even when it is as high as 98° in the open 

 air. It is not necessary that the insulation of a cheese curing- 

 room should be so thorough; but it should be sufficient to permit 

 the temperature to be kept at or under 05°. 



For the improvement of an old curing-room of the ordinary 

 open construction, the following method may be adopted with good 

 results. The whole inside should be thoroughly cleansed by a 

 lihcral use of boiling water. It should be disinfected by wash- 

 ing with hot water, to which one pound of carbolic acid to ten 

 pounds of water has been added. It should then be whitewashed 

 with fresh-slaked lime. To make the old floor close, it will 

 usually be necessary to put two thicknesses of building paper 

 over it, and a new floor laid on top of the paper. If the inside 

 walls of the old curing-room are of lumber or plaster, two thick- 

 nesses of building paper may be put on, and over them one thick- 

 ness of matched lumber, dressed on at least one side. The ceiling 

 should be made close in a similar way. The windows should be 

 made close, and double doors and windows should be put on for 



