22 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



August. This cow has had a quart of meal a day only, for 

 ten or twelve days past. 



The whole number of new milk cheeses made, is fifty -five. 

 In making the first twenty-three, the night's milk was made 

 blood- warm, after taking off the cream in the morning ; after 

 which, the milk of both night and morning, with the cream of 

 the night's milk, was put together, and the rennet put in as usual, 

 at the rate of half a pint to eight pails of milk. The other 

 thirty-two cheeses were managed somewhat differently. A 

 curd was made of the night's milk immediately after draw- 

 ing it. This was left to drain through the night, and was 

 mixed with the curd of the next morning. The quantity of 

 the rennet was the same as before, and the salt in both cases, 

 was a tea-cup full of the ground rock salt, to a cheese of about 

 fifteen pounds weight. We press from twenty-four to thirty 

 hours. Milk has been used freely in the family through the 

 summer, say, about five quarts a day. 



Essex, Sept 26th, 18 49. 



A Neighbor's Statement. 



The following letter, from a son of Essex, whose dairy pro- 

 ducts the present season, have commanded the first premium in 

 a neighboring county, will commend itself to favor ; although 

 the diffidence of the author will not suffer his name to be used. 



My Dear Sir, — I have twelve cows, mostly of the common 

 native stock. There are among them, however, tiohis, said by 

 the late Elias Phinney, Esq., to be of the Swinley Ayrshire 

 breed, and one of the North Devon breed. Three are old cows, 

 two are heifers, one of which is just three years old, and has 

 raised one calf last year, and one this ; the other is two years 

 old, and made the second week in September, five and a half 

 pounds of butter. These heifers were raised upon my own 

 farm. The first was taken from the cow when five weeks old, 

 and fed immediately upon hay and water, without ever being 

 learned to drink milk, or in any way changing her food, except 

 by the addition of roots occasionally, until the next summer, 



