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are very deftrudlive where there are large quan- 

 tities of cheefe. Before thecheefes are depofit- 

 ed in the barley-mow, they nnuft be well wafh- 

 ed with hot whey, to take away and deftroy 

 both the mites and their eggs, or they will in- 

 creafe in the barley-mow mod rapidly. 



Rennet, runnet, or what is commonly called 

 earning, is properly the acid juice or curd found 

 in the ftomachs of calves whofe food has been 

 only milk, and who are flaughtered before di« 

 geftion is perfected. But the butchers have a 

 fuccedaneum for the juice, by infufing a piece 

 of the flomach where the curd lodges (called 

 by them the cheefe-lop) in fait and water; and 

 this cfFc6lually anfwers the purpofe intended. 



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