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mained twenty four hours, was moved to another bench 

 containing four divifions, being each feparate prelTes of 

 no more weight than was immediately laid upon them, 

 about two hundred weight. The cheefe when taken from 

 the firft prefs, was put into prefs at one end of this fe- 

 cond bench, and remained in each twenty four hours, 

 moving along every day till arrived at the other end. I 

 fuppofe three days prefhng on this fecond bench, fuflBci- 

 ent for a cheefe of twenty five pounds. It was then car- 

 ried to the cheefe room. Screw prefifes are obje6iionabIe, 

 as the preffure does not follow the cheefe as it fettles. 

 My farm houfe was fortunately (haded by trees ; but the 

 better to guard againft the fun, I had Venetian fhades 

 made for the windovv^s, of clapboards painted green, which 

 ■were cheap and handlome. I alfo had made flender frames, 

 over which catgut was ftretcbed of a texture fine enough 

 to prevent the entrance of flies. When the windows were 

 opened thefe frames were put in.- The cheefe room fhould 

 be expofed on every fide except the fouth, and one or 

 more windows in each lide. Attention is much required 

 to regulate the temperature of the air • ftrong wind ad- 

 mitted will dry the cheefe too fall, and make it crack ; to 

 prevent this, it is cuftomary with us, to rub the cheefe with 

 butter; in England they wafh it with the new whey, and no 

 butter is ufcd ; this laft method 1 did not try. In hot fultry 

 weather cheefe will fpread. This fhould be prevented bv 

 bandages of tow cloth, or by putting them into cheefe 

 hoops. The expenfe of this extraordinary number of hoops 

 is not great : One cheefe faved, will pay for ten hoops, and 

 they lallmany years. They will feldom fpread after thev 

 have been made a month. In wet v/eather it is advifeable 

 to burn a little charcoal in the chimney of the cheefe room. 

 The quantity of green cheefe obtained from milk, was 

 from twenty three pounds to twenty five pounds, from 

 twenty gallons. I have got twenty feven and three quarters 

 from eighteen gallons. They feldom lofl in drying more 

 than two and ahalf pounds, in a cheefe of twenty five pounds 

 weighed green from the prefs. If it is required to have 

 the cheefe of a Gloucefter colour, take Spanifii anatto, 

 rub a lump in a faucer with milk ; a liitle experience will 

 teach the quantity neceffary for a cheefe ; then mix it with 



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