, MINUTES. MAY 



108. placed on edge in a chccfe-rack *,-and, without 

 further care, (except once a week moving them 

 a little round, ami now and then wiping their 

 edges) there remained until the time they were 

 fcnt to market, which was yeflcrday. 



The foil from which thefc cheefes were made 

 is a fandy loam, but lies cooler, and is of a bet- 

 ter quality than are Norfolk foils in general. 



The herbage principally rye grafs (lolium 

 ptrcnni), oat grafs (bromus mollis), and 

 white clover ( trifolium repent}, being princi- 

 pally new-lays of three to five years old. 



* Cljetfi-racks fave labour in turning, collect the checfe 

 into a fmall compafs, - and put it out of the way of vermin. 

 They may be >arioufly coaftrufted. The plate-rack, with 

 fgu-r or Jive tier one above another, fccms to be the be ft 

 form. If the cheefes be nearly of one iize, the rack fliould 

 bt made the fame width at the top as the bottom : but if 

 they be of different lizes, it ought to be made narrower at 

 the top than at the bottom ; and if they be of different 

 .thickntfTes as well as of dift?rcnt diameters, the fpaces for 

 the refpective cheefcs fliould likewife be varied. A fmall 

 rack may be Hung with a rope and pullies at each end \ 

 fa as be to dravyn up and lowered down at pleafure : but a 



large one is difficult to flingy in a common room, in that 

 manner ; it ought therefore to ftand on legs about two feet 

 high, with a broad bale-board projecting over the legs, foas to 

 prevent vermin from climbing up into the rack. Mine was 



on. the latter conftruclion. 



