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A. E. AUSTIN'S MANNER OF MAKING CHEESE. 



I have kept sixty cows ; they are stabled in the winter and fed 

 abundantly on hay until about the middle of March. I then feed 

 them with grain, consisting of corn ground in the ear, shorts, oats 

 ground, and oil meal, all mixed together. This feed is continued 

 until they come in or calve ; they are then fed with whey mixed with 

 the meal, principally shorts through the summer, and continued until 

 say the middle of December, fed twice a day, and about two quarts 

 at a time, of meal, and six quarts of whey. 



My cheese I make as follows: The night's milk is put into a tin 

 vat, the tin vat sets in a wooden one large enough to contain water 

 and ice sufficient to keep the milk cool until morning; it is then 

 heated by means of steam conducted from a kettle (set in an arch,) 

 by a tube in the water. The rennet is put into the milk at the tem- 

 perature of 88^, is curdled in thirty minutes, worked slow at first, 

 and then more rapid ; the curd is broke up fine and cooked to the 

 temperature of 98° or 100°, until it is of a consistency or apparent 

 dryness to salt. -It is then put into a cooler or sink, 7 feet by 3^, and 

 salted, care being taken to keep it fine, it is then put into the press 

 quite cool and pressed, the harder the better. I make about five hun- 

 dred pounds per cow, or fifteen tons the season. The two last sea- 

 sons an increase of two hundred per cow over what I have made usu- 

 ally, owing in part to extra feed, and in fact to a better selection of 

 cows. 



AARON E. AUSTIN. 



JiusHnsburghy Ohio. March 13, 1849. 



ALEXANDER OSBORN'S METHOD OF MAKING CHEESE. 



The farm contains 175 acres improved land, of which 14 acres are 

 ploughed land, 50 acres meadows, and the balance pasturage. This 

 season, there has been kept on the farm 38 cows. Commenced ma- 

 king cheese the 20th of April, and from what has been made, he esti- 

 mates the quantity this season to be about 21,000 lbs., making suita- 

 ble allowance for shrinkage of cows , &c. 



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