Geokge Miles' Statement. 



The subscriber offers two lots of cheese ; one common, the 

 other sage. We make but one cheese per day. The night's 

 milk is strained into pans and the cream taken off in the 

 morning. The milk is then warmed to blood heat, and 

 added to the moning's milk with the cream returned ; then 

 add rennet enough to form the curd in thirty or forty minutes. 

 When the whey is sufficiently drained from the curd by a 

 gentle pressure, it is cut with knives to the size of dice and 

 salted with about one pound of salt to twenty five of curd. 

 It is then submitted tp the press for two days with several 

 turnings, then, covered, dressed and turned daily until cured. 



For sage cheese, the juice of green sage, with some of that 

 expressed from pounded corn blades and is added to one half 

 of the milk when set for cheese. 



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MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



The Committee experienced the usual difficulty this year 

 as formerly in examining the articles entered in their depart- 

 ment, many of them not being presented till the morning of 

 the exhibition, and those the Committee consequently could 

 not give that careful examination wliich they justly merited ; 

 and the Committee are aware that in the crowded hall of the 

 morning of the exhibition, with the large number of articles 

 presented to pass upon, that some may have been omitted, 

 but if so, unintentionally. Therefore the Committee feel 

 excused upon that point ; they feel an incompetency of doing 

 justice to all the different articles presented, and inventions 

 offered for their consideration. The Committee being but a 

 bare majority of those who were assigned to perform this 

 work, they entered upon it very reluctantly, disposed to do the 

 best when the line between manufactured and fancy articles 



