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Ckeese. 



Firstly, care is taken to have the milk and rennet perfectly sweet, 

 otherwise an unpleasant flavor is produced in the cheese. The milkj 

 however, has as much of the animal heat evaporated from it as time 

 "will admit of. 



After the curd is properly produced it is broken up very fine, and 

 well cooked, not so much, though, as to start the oil in the curd. It 

 is seasoned with clean fine salt, pure from lime, and put into the 

 press when cool. It is pressed hard in order to extract all the w^hey 

 from the middle before the outside closes tight. The pressing con- 

 tinues for two days, and when taken from the press, a dry cloth is 

 put over it for a few hours, until a rind is farmed; then annetto, 

 dissolved in strong lye, is applied, and a cloth is again put over it, 

 until the next day; after the cloth is removed, a think strong coat of 

 melted beeswax and lard, or butter, is put on. A bright, smooth 

 surface is obtained, and kept by constant rubbing and turning, until 

 the cheeseis cured. S. PERRY. 



Mew-York, Oct., 1842, 



AMERICAN SALT. 



To the President and Board of Managers of the Jlmerican Institute. 

 Gentlemen — 



I most respectfully take leave to crave your notice of the speci- 

 men of salt rock from the salt mine in Washington county, Virginia, 

 and to the sample of fine table salt from the extensive salt works of 

 that place; and also to samples of salt from the very extensive works 

 and salt fields in the Onondaga valley in this State; and also to the 

 remarks, &c. which are below. 



May I ask you, in behalf of the great public interest which this 

 necessary of life sustains, to examine these specimens and samples, 

 not only as respects the quality, but also in regard to the quantity 

 now manufactured in our country, and the low price at which it is 

 sold, and the ability of our own citizens to supply the inhabitants of 

 this great and growing country with this important article, which, as 

 will be seen in the sequel, is so extensively used? 



Bread is said to be the staff of life — that our soil produces in abun 

 dance; water comes next in order, and this the clouds shower down 

 upon our earth in rich profusion, supplying its rivers, lakes, springs, 

 wells and aqueducts with that fluid, which is the dissolved crystals of 

 that primative stock, which had its place in the creation ere the solar 

 orb had moved its terrestrial attendants around it as a center in this 

 one great system, and which now forms the arctic and antarctic 

 fountains of the great deep, the breaking up of both of which in the 

 same day by the melting of their continents and mountains of ice de- 

 luged our earth with a flood of the resulting aqueous fluid from their 

 water crystals! 



Next in order comes another crystalized body — salt; an article so 

 necessary to animal life, that even the monster beasts of the forest 

 travel its rngged paths for immense distances to taste its sweets. In 



