MINUTES MAY- 



y//^ 15. Twenty-eight gallons : milk heated 

 to ninety-five degrees : with two cups of ren- 

 net; and covered after it had flood three quarters 

 of an hour : came in one hour and a half : whey 

 ^ eighty-nine degrees (the morning warm): curd 

 very good and tender. 



"June 1 6. Thirty gallons of milk: heated 

 to one hundred and three degrees ; but lowered 

 by two pails-full of cold water to ninety-fix 

 degrees ^ with two cups and a half of rennet ; 

 and kept clofe covered : came in one hour : 

 whey ninety rfour degrees: curd pretty good 

 but not fufficiently tender. 



June 17. Twenty-eight gallons ; ninety-feven 

 degrees : two and one-half cups : covered but 

 not clofe : came in one hour and a half: whey 

 not tried : curd forrjcwhat tough. 



Note, the tough nefs is owing, perhaps, to 

 fome milk of a new-calven cow being among 

 it. 



Note alfi) to try the exact heat of milk im- 

 mediately frpm the cow, immerged a difli in, 

 the pail while milking. After it had lain, long 

 pnough to repeive a degree of heat equal to that 

 pf the milk in the pail, emptied it, and imme- 

 diately milked into it from the teat (the covy 



