PRODUCE OF DAIRY. 75 



ELIPLHALET EMERY'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Societij on the Dairy: 



Gentlemen — Fourteen cows are kept, but gener- 

 ally five or six are kept in milk during the Winter. 

 The dairy may therefore be considered equal to a- 

 bout nine cows, coming in about April, or the first of 

 May. Commenced making new milk cheese the 

 first day of July. In the fifty five days following, 

 made about one thousand pounds. The rennet is 

 put to the milk as soon as brought from the cows at 

 night, and the same with the milk in the morning ; 

 the curd of the night being added before scalding. 

 The quantity of rennet varies according to its 

 strength, but generally about a table spoonful to three 

 gallons of milk. Salted wholly in the curd, with a 

 little less than one pint of fine bag salt to twenty gal- 

 lons of milk. The milk of the dairy is generally 

 sold from the first of December to nearly the last of 

 May. In the month of June the milk is used for 

 butter and two mealed cheese, as it also is for about 

 a month after making new milk cheese ; then, to a- 

 bout the first of December, it is wholly used for butter. 



Eliphalet Emery. 

 West Newbury, Sept. 26, 1837. 



ISAAC CARRUTH'S STATEMENT, 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society on the Dairy : 



Gentlemen — After the whey begins to appear, 

 stir it carefully, let it remain uMil it settles, then dip 

 it into a basket to drain. When the whey is suffici- 

 ently pressed out, cut it into pieces about as large as 

 dice, put it into warm whey and let it stand about ten 



