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many varieties of small cheeses made, however, which find 

 an excellent market, and there is room for more. The 

 small round cheese known as Edam, for instance, which 

 weighs about four pounds, sells readily for about one 

 dollar each ; the English dairy cheese in imitation of the 

 favorite Gloucester cheese, fiat and circular in shape, and 

 weighing about twelve pounds, sells for twenty-five cents 

 per pound ; the cylindrical cheeses made to imitate the 

 English Wiltshire retails at twenty-two cents per pound; 

 the American French' Brie, a soft fat cheese, and the 

 American Limburger, Schweitzer, Neufchatel, Gonda,and 

 other highly-flavored kinds are also in good demand and 

 sell at highly remunerative prices. Small home-made 

 cheeses, too, are easily salable, and are exceedingly desir- 

 able for domestic use. Such cheeses weigh about ten 

 pounds each and sell easily for eighteen to twenty cents 

 per pound. 



The process of making small cheeses of this kind is as 

 follows : The morning's milk, well aired by pouring it 

 through a strainer from one pail to another several times, 

 by which it is reduced to about seventy or seventy-two 

 degrees, is mixed with the evening's milk in a wooden 

 vat or tub of convenient size. The temperature of the 

 whole should then be raised to not less than seventy-eight 

 or more than eighty-four degrees. The rennet is then 

 added in the proportion of one liquid ounce to fifty quarts 

 of milk, or at the rate of half a pint to 100 gallons. The 

 rennet is made thus : The stomach of a sucking calf in 

 which the milk is digested is emptied of its contents, 

 well salted inside and out, and hung up to dry. The dry 

 stomach is ke^^t in this condition for two or three 

 months or even twelve to eighteen months, during which 

 time it becomes stronger and more effective for its pur- 

 pose the older it is. It is then steeped for three weeks 

 in a quart of water in which salt has been dissolved until 

 no more is 'taken up. The liquid is bottled for use and 



