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ring are needless. As pressure is applied, the loose ring sinks 

 into the hoop with the cheese. 



The seamless cheese-bandage (Fjg. 931) invented by Mr. E. V. 

 Lapham, of Morrison, Illinois, appears to have been a happy discov- 

 ery, as it has become very popular among dairymen of the West. 

 It is a continuous, seamless cylinder. Cut the right length, and the 

 bandage is ready. The self-bandaging cheese-hoop (Fig. 933) has 

 been before referred to. 



• -.» Cheese-Factories. 



We close our article on cheese-making with two representations 

 of cheese-factories. One is that of Longford, in England, showing 

 the way cheese was manufactured in the early times. In connec- 

 tion with this figure, we present (Fig. 932) a cut of a press-vat of a 

 primitive kind, used in this factory. It was a cylinder of galvanized 

 wrought iron, without ends, the necessary bottom being formed by 

 the board on which it rested when in press, and the top consisting 

 of a "follower," fitting inside the hoop, and sinking as the cheese 

 became more 1 compact. 



The last representation (Fig. 935) is that of the curing-room of 

 a model cheeserfactory, at Whitesboro, Oneida county, N. Y., built 

 for. the storing of the cheese of 1,500 cows. It is the property of Dr. 

 L. L. Wight, a most popular American dairyman. 



Fig. 935.— Curing-room, Whitesboro Cheese-factory. 



