214- MINUTES MAY 



! 08 f June 8. Twenty- fix gallons of milk, heated 



to onc hundred and two degrees, with one tea- 

 cup-full of rennet, came in two hours and a 

 Jiu'f; curd very good, 



June 9. Twenty- five gallons of milk, 

 he.ued to one hundred degrees, with a tea-cup- 

 full and a half of rennet, came in about one 

 hour and a half; the curd good, but fome- 

 what tough ; owing, perhaps, to the milk be- 

 ing kept too warm in the cheefe-tub, by being 

 covered up clofe with a thick cloth. 



Note, On the feventh and eighth, the whey 

 retained a heat of about eighty-eight degrees, 

 whereas the whey this morning was ninety*two 

 degrees ; fo that, perhaps, it is not the heat 

 when it is fef, but the heat when it comes, which 

 gives the quality of the curd. 



June 10. Twenty-iive gallons : ninety-fix 

 degrees : two cups : uncovered : came in, 

 two hours and a quarter : whey eighty- feven 

 degrees : curd very tender. 



Jane ji. Twenty-three gallons: one hun- 

 dred degrees ; more than a tea^cup : uncovered: 

 did not come in two hours ; owing to the ren- 

 net being lower in ftrength than before : there- 

 fore, added in a little more rennet ; which 

 Brought it in about three hours from firft fet- 



