ON THE DAIRY. 37 



DAViD CHOATES STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Dairy: 



Gentlemen : — I offer for your inspection, 66 1-2 pounds of new 

 milk cheese, being a sample of 800 pounds made between the 1st 

 day of June and the 1st of August last. We had seven cows in 

 milk during that time. After the 10th of August we milked nine. 



The whole produce of the dairy has been as follows, viz: — 800 

 pounds new milk cheese, as above, and 44 pounds of four meal do., 

 with a small quantity of an inferior kind. Also, 219 pounds of but- 

 ter. The butter has been chiefly made since the 1st of August. 



The farm is situated upon Hog Island, so called, in this town, and 

 has suffered from drought and from grasshoppers beyond any former 

 year. The cows had no feed besides what they found in the pas- 

 ture, until about the 10th of September, after which time they were 

 occasionally let into the mowing grounds a few hours in the day. 

 All the cows are of native breed, except one of the two which we 

 began to milk about the 10th of August. This cow has had a quart 

 of meal a day for ten or twelve days past only. 



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 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 imme- 

 diately after drawing it. This was left to drain through the night, 

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

 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 beeu 

 used freely in the family through the summer, say about five quarts 

 a day. 



DAVID CHOATE. 



Essex, Sept. 26, 1849. 



of the Society required to eiitille him to enter into the competition. We hope he will learn wis- 

 dom by practice, and persevere until he succeeds. We want our neig^hbors to share in the bcnefiia 

 of the Society, and to show that ihey are worthy of them. 



