412 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [JUNE 20, 
the curd. Our practice is then to put the milk together | that by allowing a few worsted threads to drop from the op — of this 8 who have taken “the 
at 82° to 86°, according to the weather. We let it these into a bucket of water, the blankets will be kept trouble to comprehend it, have good cause to co 
stand an hour and a half before breaking in the pan ;| wet by the force of capillary attraction. In the winter | themselves greatly i ndebted ; and the more so, inas. 
this is half an hour longer than generally allowed ; but | the external air must be excluded as much as possible, — as Flax oe dee adopted finds much 
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verting the milk into curd, we find it necessary to loyed. I recommend, where it can be conveniently and especially in the e * — months, when 80 many 
give a longer time than ordinarily is allowed for its full eg that hot . — should be used—the heat is more industrious persons through the effect of mistaken 
eonversion. After breaking and settling a few minutes, | generally diffused, 8 the air is not rendered so dry as | legislation, proportionally beneficial to foreign industry, 
we apply a syphon to run off the whey, and for this to crack the chee as subversive of the just reward of British labour, are 
reason—it disturbs and breaks the curd far less than is With the — care employed, some of the cheeses thrown out of employment, and have no resource but 
done by ladling. From putting the cheese and rennet | will be found to crack, These should be filled up, and the poor-house for themselves and their families. Ag Į 
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shire a mill employed in grinding up the curd, and I | drought, to affect the cheeses whilst i Pra Age 9 The Scotch Law of Hypothec.—You are not quite 
notice often in our neighbourhood, also, that several | and exc —— them for money as . —— correct in your view of the Scotch law of hypothe, 
break up by hand, to what I consider the injury of the | a sale. Mr. Harrison at a Meting ofi de Spar You apparently assume that a sale of grain in open 
cheese. I see likewise round us two, three, or four Farmers "Club. Abridged from the 3 | 3 by a tenant is necessarily a * sale, cone the 
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process for an hour at least, before the Home Correspondence K by a fraudulent tenant with as great, perhaps 
cheese goes to press. Now we dispense with a great Mr. Wilkins v. Bor. feeding. — 2 in your more, secrecy than on his farm. On the other hand, 
deal of this (to us) unnecessary attention. The curd | Gazette, of June 15, that the Rev. George 3 the present law is in some respects beneficial to the 
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off, and put into the middle of the cheese, which is | columns to more practically useful purposes than agri- his farm. It also enables the landlord, with safety to 
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the press. In a quarter of an hour e eee ee had been adduced to show the error of the Rev. Mr. in the satay oe ae 58 15 termly rent, 
the edges are cut off on the opposite side—and cont 3 sentiments—perceiving that the rev. gentle- | when adverse mstances requi „in place of 
itis put under In half an N * cheese is n has again appeared in print, treating in no very being obliged Mi tapi. r s bill rigidly to exact 
pierced the Saas into a dry cloth—and the friendly way his “friend” Mr. Mechi, whose endea- | the rent on the term day, and sequestrate the crop in 
press is now allowed ig age the — a should vours at . through the best road—that of default of payment, thereby ruining the tenant's eredit. 
explain that the press is tel in this process is a lever at least to be praised for his benevolent de- It is quite a mistake to think that the law of hypothee 
press, working up to 23cwt., and that the weight sire t agricultural | prevents or is even any hindrance to a tenant obtaining 
brought to bear upon it at first is small, but is increased | by ‘experiments f — the benefit of others, I shall venture accommodation credit at the bank. You will find on 
as the cheese advances in solidity. Fro re bS eee ox rd a sp gga the Rev. Mr. Wilkins as to his inquiry at any Scoteh bank that any tenant of respect- 
of the curd into the vat, till it is fixed for ep San l pressu tat) esteemed “friend” Mr. “Mechi’s able character and credit readily obtains such accom- 
in the press, — two hours are taken up; but for fall | (eattle) “boxes, ne 2, were made secundem artem 3, 4,|modation, And it is notorious that the p ty of 
half that time the person employed in attending upon | or 5 feet in the groun nd. Ir the rev. ee mea- | agriculture in Scotland has been mainly imputed to the 
the making may be occupied in the other work belong- | 8 (apparently dubious euough by his own word. facility with which which the wisely constituted banks 
äng to the dairy. And it must be borne in mind, that ing) were not mere guess work, then it follows that of that country granted advances to respectable tenants 
with the separation of the liquid from the solid matter, they wer were ries made — Ar. nor in p% manner | for the improvement of their farms. A repeal of the 
with regard to dp r. W others | law will be found to be pregnant with great evil to the | 
to the whey lead for skimming, and dies bare have usefully, as 8 hs health of the animals, con J. S. H. [We submit that the so-called ad- 
no further aor A 8 thence to the cistern. You and beneficially in point of profit, e antage to a tenant of a 2 tponed rent, is in its effeet 
will observe, — hag: whey goes at once into | ing of cattle in boxes with the old system of fattening 8 inasmuch as it incre ases the competition for 
removed by taking up a stock in open yards, with open hovels annexed to them, | land, and thus raises hin | 
plug, which allows te — to the cistern. I need | whether chained up or running loose, the box-fed The late Ps Smith, of Dea | 
not go into the minute ge of dee r salting, &c., as animals becoming much sooner ripe for the butcher, | every frien to praetical agricaliare, and to ts ie cope 
everyone conversant w ith cheese-making must be well | without injury to health or subjecting them “ to filth | cation of — to the management of land, particu- 
acquainted with them ; es I will observe that many and fœtid air,“ as described by the objector as the re- larly of strong clays, I dee ly lament the loss of so 
points which appear to be of little consequence to aj sult of his inspection at Tiptree-hall, where, if his ac- | eminent and intelligent a labourer in the goo 
casual observer will make a great difference to the —_ be correct e upon myself (as an extensive | the late Mr. Smith, of Deanston. He had the merit of 
economy or the profit of cheese-making. eeder of cattle in boxes for some years) to say that Mr. a one of the first, if not the very first, 
It is the objeet of all of us—at leas, it ought | b. be Mochi must have fallen into error, inasmuch as Mr. | the attention of the heavy-land farmer to vi ought to 
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some mismanagement if it ever falls below that 3, 4, or 5 feet deep. Further, I deny that Mr. Warnes | and 8 demonstrated by his own expres 
ey At the autumnal season the relative value of _ objected to a reasonable admission of light or fresh | the importance of a thorough stirring the subsoil, wi 
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ce; | glass panes are, at certain distances, let the i ane erops. Of the operation of the common plough, Mr. 
attended with some the tempe den om | B u d 3 ke 
i brought below 56, milk w will acquire an acidity, and | structed with brick sides and chalk bottoms, 24 feet | follow it, are only the ‘animal power? substitute — 
the result will be a sour- milk cheese. This cheese will only in depth, according to Mr. Warnes’ system and | that more perfect process accomplished in brief by 
of — value per — this will not be the | judicious recommendation, with a moveable wooden in- spade ;”* or, we might add, by som and better 
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same measure of milk which has s yiclded 56 Ibs. of curd | be right or wrong in adopting Mr. Huxtable’s practice | without uplifting the subsoil. “ This, observes © 
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3 ; | f 2 reasonal me, on the cor- | sluggish cleaving of the plou share, which only lits ur 
sary to cool it by water; 523° is the temperature of | rectħess of ~~ application of Mr. Hu fablos plan, per eeka a: ean of 3 making a fulerum of that 
water, which, being brought in contact with the vessel | which it is to be hoped may be more correct than his which see Sek, and thus us pressing and polishing 
containing milk, and occasionally — will secure | adaptation of Mr. Warnes’ * i. e., supposing his | subsoil year after year, into barren and im 
the mi m going sour. We hav mplished this | friend the Rev. Mr. George igh gene statement to be | induration which the — of no annual cal pæ 
object in our dairy by passing 8 it a running | more entitled to attention than his unfounded abuse of | trate.” Such was the professed object of his subs? 
stream. By setting tins of milk in a trough through | what he permits himself to term ie ek making in plough; his spade, though somewhat fof Brobiigs 
which this stream passes, we can keep the whole of the | muck,” “ dungeons, 2 cattle graves, amidst zits nagian operation; and though opinions have the 
Sunday's milk sweet for Monday's use There is also | ness, filth, and noxious vapours,” &c., epithets wholly | fered, and probably will continue to differ, “aniy 
pms advantage derived from this plan—by cooling | unjustified by facts; for wherever the boxes are pro- quantum of good derived from the be superiority 
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milk in deep tins, — i y stirrin as to 
‘cream is prevented from to the surface, and does | mitted, and proper but not simone? attention paid to of a broken substratum, full of four over a 
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— ity between tin and curd is so great | escape of ammonia whatever; and amon or other crops, and to facilitate the opea uri 
That we could not separate it wholly by the breaker, and | hundreds of all classes who have inspected 7 4 boxes, the ibe cade drains, ‘On one point advanced nie 3 
ird consequently was found in almost every cheese. | the universal remark has been, and in many in of the obituary in question, I must be allow inventor 
will ose my remarks upon the dairy in Professor surprise expressed at the ee of all 5 my decided protest. He calls Mr. Smith the in? 
‘Way’s word’s: “Serupulous attention to cleanliness is effluvia. The Rev. Mr. George Wilkins appears to con- and chief promoter of Te he is erg to d Nowa 
dai i | as “ the modern 
veniently situated under the slates of the house. In the | emana; through the intelligence igence and praiseworthy | It . who | 
summer it is too hot; in the wiat U ia tyo old. The Senet Me: Warnes, to whom, in ass Saye of tae would have i the foundation of al go mane iry. i 
heat of summer may be lessened by banging up | called free-trade, by his advocacy arte and neglected this, the 
wet blankets at the window; —— jest beard culture of Flax upon the Belgian im proved principle, | 
