88 CHEESE MAKING. 
EicuHTH—After pressing as usual, or until the time when the 
bandage is to be turned in or lapped over the edge of the cheese in order 
to press the bandage down, it is well to remove the cheese from the hoop, 
and having turned it over, put it back in the hoop with the other face up, 
and put to press again. This will be found to remove any wrinkles that 
may have formed in the bandage. 
184. How to Get Cheese Dry. 
The idea that we make a cheese dry by pressing it is an 
erroneous one. The whey must be removed from the curd while 
it is in the vat; if it is not, no amount of squeezing in the press 
will expel it, and the cheese will get sour. 
If the press is not a continuous pressure one, the maker 
should tighten the press the last thing at night, and the first 
thing in the morning. 
In the morning, the cheese should be taken oiit of the hoops 
and examined, to see if they are perfect in shape, and all defects 
remedied. If the bandage does not stick, the cheese should be 
washed with warm water, and after being tightened in the press, 
hot water turned on to warm it up. If the edge of the upper 
end of the cheese is rough, it should be turned end for end in the 
hoop. In either case, the fibrous ring should be left out, so that 
the edge of the cheese will come out square on the hoop. The 
cheese must be watched, to see that it does not push out beyond 
the follower, and its last state be worse than the first; but if 
the pressure is carefully applied, a nice square edge can be put 
onto a cheese in this way. 
185. Do Not Pound the Hoops. 
The cheese should slip out of the hoop with very little 
pounding. Pounding loosens the rivets, and gets the hoops into 
bad condition, as well as loosens the bandage on the cheese, and 
sometimes breaks the cheese. 
Where a knife is used to loosen the cheese, the bandage is 
also often loosened. If the cheese does not slip out easily, grease 
the hoops. The hoops should be kept clean, and when necessary 
to grease. them, clean grease should be used. 
Cheese should never be taken out on the floor, but on a 
press board. We must remember that cheese is an article of 
‘human food. Most people like to have clean food to eat, and we 
