S/^(> Account of the Procefs employ cd 



As foon as the chcefe is put into the prcfs^ it is wcil 

 Ikcwered ; the fkewers are of a ftiong iron wire, 18 or 20 

 inches long, fharp at the points, and turned with a bow at 

 tkc other end. The vat and tin binder have holes to re- 

 ceive the fkewers, efpecially the binder, which holes are fel- 

 dom more th;m one ineh from each other. As the prefs (lands 

 clofe to a wall, only one fide of the cheefe can be fjvewered 

 at a time ; therefore as many fkewers are Ituek in ditlcrent 

 directions as conveniently may, leaving as many holes un- 

 Ikevvered as are fkewered, to give an opportunity of changing 

 the holes. Tlie bufincfs of fkcworing continues till the next 

 morning at fix o'clock, and in that time the oftencr they are 

 fliiftcd the better ; every -fecond time of fliifting them the 

 cheefe is turned halfway round in the prefs, to come at the 

 other fide of it. In half an hour from the time the cheefe is 

 firft put into the prefs, it is taken out again and turned in 

 the vat into another clean cloth. At this time the edges of 

 the cheefe are paved otf, if they have become fliarp under the 

 prefs ; but as the vats arc now ufually made with the angles 

 rounded, the paring is rendered unnecefTarv, the vat being 

 wiped dry before the cheefe is returned to it. 



When the cheefe is thus the firlt time taken out of the 

 pref?, it is the cijftom of fome places to put it into warn), and 

 in others into hot whey, where it ftiuids an hour or more. 

 It is then taken out, wiped drv, and after it has flood till 

 coo], it is returned back to the prefs. This is done with a 

 view to hardening its coat, that it mav ftand the better. At 

 fix o'clock in the evenins; the chcefe is asjain turned in the 

 vat into another clean cloth. At this and the former turnmg* 

 forne dairy-women prick the upper furface of the cheefe all 

 over, an inch or two deep, before it is replaced imder the 

 prefs, with a view of preventing blifters. At fix o'clock in 

 the morning it is aoain turned in the vat, with a clean clotli 

 as before. The Ikewers are now laid afide. When the next 

 day's cheefe is ready for the prefs, the former one is again 

 turned in tb.c vat with a clean cloth, and put under another 

 prefs. At fix o'clock in the evening, and at fix the morning 

 following, it is again turned in the vat, ufing at thefe two 

 i.-ift turnings two cloths finer than thofc before ufcd, in order 

 that as little impreffion as pofliible from the cloth may remain 

 on the coat of live cheefe. 



Sailing the Cheefe. 



Four or five davs after the cheefe ha? been under the 

 prefs, a fred, fine cloth is put under it, which ferves onlv as 

 * lining to the vat, and is not turned over tiie upper furface 



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