Cultivation f)f Graf* Lund. Dairying* Making of Checfc. 



matter the practice of almoft every particular dairy differs from that of another. 

 That which is adopted in Cheihire is, that the loweft degree of heat which milk 

 ought to poflefs, when the rennet is applied, is one half of that of the milk from 



a little more rennet: which brought it in about three hours from thefirft fctting: the whey eighty- fever: 

 degrees: the curd uncommonly tender. ltli. Twi nty-four gallons of milk: one hundred degrees ; 

 two cups ot rennet : uncovered; came in two hours: whey eighty-nine degrees; curd uncommonly 

 tender. 13th. Twenty-eight gallons of milk : ninety-two degrees ; three cups (fay ftrongly renneted) 

 covered up with a coarl e linen clot!) : came in one hour and a half: whey eighty-fix degrees: curd 

 very good, and of a very fine colour: though perhaps would have handled tenderer if it had not ftood 

 fome time after it came before it was broken up. Perhaps, fays he, much depends on its being broken 

 up in the critical minute. 14th. Twenty-eight gallons: one hundred degrees: two-cupfuls : un 

 covered : came in one hour and a quarter : whey ninety-four degrees : curd fomewliat harm., but of a 

 good colour. The change of colour, therefore, he thinks, owing to the change of paiture. 



&quot; He here notes, that the milk fhould be covered to make it come together: this came and grew 

 hard at the bottom half an hour before it was fel at the top. 15th. Twenty-eight gallons : milk heated 

 to ninety-five degrees : with two cups of rennet; and covered after it had ftood three quarters of an 

 hour : came in one hour and a half: whey eighty-nine degrees (the morning warm) : curd very good 

 and tender. 16 th. Thirty gallons of milk heated to one hundred and three degrees, but lowered by 

 two pails full of cold water to ninety-fix degrees ; with two cups and a half of rennet; and kept clofe 

 covered : came in one hour : whey .ninety-four degrees : curd pretty good, but not fufficiently tender. 

 17th. Twenty-eight gallons: ninety-feven degrees : two cups and a half : covered ; but not clofe; 

 came in one hour and a half: whey not tried : curd fomewhat tough. It is noted, that the toughnefs 

 was owing, perhaps, to fome milk of a new-calved cow being among it. And, alfo, to try the 

 exaft heat of milk immediately from the cow, immcrged a difh in the pail while milking. After 

 it had lain long enough to receive a degree of heat equal to that of the milk in the pail, emptied it, 

 and immediately milked into it from tbc teat (the cow being at this time about half milked); the 

 heat ninety- five degrees; and likewife, that the cheefesof ycitcrday (the l(Jth of June) prefs remarkably 

 claftic, and fpongy, like a fungus : perhaps owing to the milk s coming too hot ; or perhaps to two or 

 three of the cows being then a-bulling ; or perhaps being made thicker than ufual, the prefs was not 

 heavy enough for them : or perhaps this ill quality is owing to the cold Water being put into the milk. 

 He afterwards found that milk of a cow, on the day of amour, retained, after having ftood for fome 

 time in the pail after milking, ninety-eight degrees of heat. This (hows that the ftate, if not the 

 quality, of the milk is altered by the heat of the cow ; and a cautious dairy-woman always endeavours 

 to keep fuch milk out of her cheefe-tub. 



* June 13th. Thirty gallons : ninety-five degrees: covered: came in one hour and a half : whey 

 ninety-two degrees : curd pretty good. 19th. Thirty gallons : ninety-two degrees : two cups covered : 

 curd very good. 21ft. Thirty gallons : ninety-eight degrees : lowered by half a pail of cold water to 

 ninety-five degrees : the curd good ; but the cheefes, like thofe of the 16th prefs, hollow and fpongy. 

 Therefore it is probable, from thefe two incidents, that lowering the heat of the milk with cold water 

 has an evil effect. 23d. (Evening) fifteen gallons of new milk&quot; warm from the cow, retaining a heat 



