CHAPTER III 



SOFT CHEESE MANUFACTURE 



THERE is no doubt that the manufacture of 

 soft cheese is the most profitable branch of 

 dairy farming in France. We have for many 

 years paid much attention to this subject, in 

 the hope that the system might be established 

 in this country ; but, chiefly, perhaps, from 

 want of knowledge of the system of manufacture, 

 and to some extent from want of enterprise, 

 our dairy farmers still allow the French to 

 supply our markets, hesitating to take up a class 

 of work which careful investigation would show 

 them to be extremely profitable. The following 

 remarks are not based upon theory ; they are 

 the result of a considerable amount of labour 

 devoted to the study of the processes of manu- 

 facture of the leading varieties of soft cheese 

 made in France. We were led to investigate 

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