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evening's milking, togetlier with a sufficiency of rennet. When 

 the curd comes it is not to be broken, but taken out carefully and 

 placed in a sieve to drain gradually. As the whey drains off the 

 curd is gently pressed till it becomes firm and dry, and then 

 placed in a wooden vat, kept dry, and turned frequently. After 

 being taken from the vat it is still kept in the cloth till quite dry 

 and firm, and afterwards brushed repeatedly,"* 



Another method is, to " to take the milk of seven cows, and 

 the cream of the same number ; heat a gallon of water scalding 

 hot, and pour it on three or four handfuls of marigold flowers that 

 have been bruised a little, and then strain into your tub to the milk 

 and put in rennet, but not too much to make it hard ; put the 

 curd into a sieve to drain, but do not break it, and as the whey 

 drains off tie it up into a cloth, and let it stand half an hour or 

 more ; then pour cold water enough to cover it, and let it stand 

 half an hour more ; then put half of it into a vat six inches deep, 

 and Ijreak the top of it a little to make it join with the other ; 

 then put the other half to it and lay a half-cwt. upon it, and let 

 it stand half an hour, then trun it and put it into a press, and 

 turn it into clean cloths every hour the day it is made ; the next 

 morning salt it, and let it lie in salt a day and night ; keep it 

 swathed tight till it begins to coat and dry, and keep it covered 

 with a dry cloth a great while." t 



The cows kept are principally the short-horn breed, and on 

 some of the best land three acres is sufficient to maintain one 

 cow the year round ; while on the poor and inferior soils four and 

 five acres are required to accomplish this. 



The general management differs so little from that given in 

 our second division, that to describe it here would be needless 

 repetition. 



About Burrow, and from thence north, some of the pastures 

 are in a much neglected and unimproved state, some fields 

 being covered with ant-hills, to the entire exclusion of all good 

 and nutritious herbage. Drainage is much wanted. Thistles 

 and other noxious weeds abound, and the care and attention 

 bestowed on the grass-land in the south of the division is on 

 many farms here totally wanting. 



The Duke op Kutland's Estate 



in Leicestershire is situated principally in this division, and 

 through the kindness of his Grace's agent, INIr. Green, I am 

 enabled to give the following account of it, which, considering 

 its great extent — something like one-sixteenth of the whole 

 county, will, I trust, prove interesting. 



* White. t Pitt. 



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