DAIR YING. 
half; curd very good: oth, pili gallons of milk, 
heated to one hundred degrees, with a tea-cupful and a half 
of rennet, came in about one hoard and a ball the curd good, 
te fomewhat tough, owing, perhap o the milk bei eing 
t too warm in ee cheefe-tub, by ting coven up clofe 
mat a thick c 
n the feventh - eighth the whey re= 
igh her: 
tained the t of beat cighty t degrees, where- 
as the whey this morning wa ae two degrees: fo 
that, perhaps, it is not the hese when it is fet, but the 
heat wh comes, whic 
n 
being ieee in ftrength than before ; therefore, added a little 
more rennet, which brought it in about three hours from 
firft fetting ; the whey eighty-feven degrees ; the curd un- 
te: 12th, twenty-four gallons of milk ; 
a very es colour ; 
‘tenderer if it had n 
Gt was broken up. Dae rays f he, much denen on its 
being broken up in the critical minute : : a trenty-cight 
gall ons; one iene degrees ; two cupfuls; uncovered ; 
camic ne hot a quarter ; whey ninety-four degrees ; 
curd fence t harth, but of a good colour. The change 
of colour, therefore, he thinks, owing to the change of 
afture 
” Fee he notes, that the pate oe covered to make 
er; this came, grew hard at the bottom 
two of rennet; pone covered after it had itood three 
hour ; e in one hoor and a half; whey 
m3) curd very good 
pee 
ninety four degrees; curd pretty good, but not fuffeciently 
tender: 17th, twenty-eight gallons; ninety-feven degrees 5 
two cups and a half; covered, but not clofe; came in one 
hour aud a half; whey not tried, curd fomewhat tough. 
It is noted that the toughnefs was owing, perhaps, to 
fome milk of a new-calved eing among it. But to try 
the exact heat o w, he im- 
ifh i fter it had lain 
long enough to receive a degree o aches t equal to that of the 
milk in the pail, emptied it, and sonar tly milked into it 
from the teat, (the cow bein the time about 
milked ;) the heat ce ae Pepsi ; and likew t 
the cheefes of aaa iieg 16th of June) prefs seals 
ably elaftic, and {pongy, 
milk’s coming too h 
cows being then a-bulling; or, perhaps, being made thicker 
-than -ufual, the prefs was not heavy enough for them; or, 
“perhaps, this ill quality is owing to the cold water being put 
‘into the milk. 
He afterwards found, that milk of a cow, on the day of 
amour, retained, after having ftcod fome time in the pail 
after ae ninety-eight ip of heat. This thews that 
the flate, if not the quality of the miik, is altered by the 
eat of the cow; - a cautious dairy-woman always en 
deavours t agneens fuc aie out of her cheefe-tub. 
Jun 
e 18th, rapes alin ninety-five degrees; covered ; 
came in an hour half; 
o cups; ¢overed ; curd very goo 
ninety-eight degrees 
to ninety-five degree e curd 
thofe of the 16th, a hollow and fpongy. 
is probable, from thefe two incidents, that pa the 
heat of the milk with cold water has an evil effet 
(evening) fifteen gallons of new milk war 
retaining a heat of ninety-two degrees; with t 
half of new weak rennet ; and clofely tae came 
quarters of an hour ; whey eighty-eight degree S3 re ery 
delicate and good: 25th, forty gallons of half fkim. milk, 
heated to eighty-feven degrees, with three c 
flightly covered, came in th 
eptember 8th, in cbferving the effet of fome ree 
aneeel, ftrong rennet, he found that an ordinary tea-cup= 
ful coagulated fufficiently upwards of forty gallons of milk, 
heated to only eighty-eight degrees, in thirty-five minutes. 
ol 
of an to two 
mi vith ‘be bear oreo ly 
gs from thefe, 
ey trials, which b made in the 
ars to him at Bea that from 
to 9o° are the proper degrees of heat ; that from one to 
two hours is the proper time of coagulation ; and that the 
milk ought to be covered, fo as to lofe in the procefs about 
five degrees of its original heat. But, fays he, climature, 
feafons, the weather, and the ‘eeu may require that thefe 
bounds fhould fometimes be bro few obfervations, 
made in ene feafon, ae in one See how accurately foever 
time of ie be from t 
they may have been no means adeq tats to the 
entire illaftration of re very abitrufe fubje&. 
t has been ftated as a matter of farpr rife, by Mr. 
oa oaalle that in dairies of confiderable extent, ee ufe of 
e thermometer is not fo underftood as that of the 
Je difo, as by corre&t trials in ee way, in refpe& to 
the mot fuitable open or milk, in order to have the 
ag writer, that confiderable ippovement would be made 
n the management of the cheefe-dairy, efpecially, if at the. 
fine time a mean could be eftablifhed for determining the 
ftrength and quality of the rennet, and the quantity necef= 
fary for properly coagulating a given quantity of milk. See 
ACTOM 
The frothy fabftance which is apt to rife in pouring the 
new milk into the cheefe-tub, in confequence of the air en- 
tangled with it, fhould conftantly be fkimmed off in a careful 
manner, and be depofited in the cream-veflels. 
ral rule has yet been eftablifhed, whereby to 
determine cither the quantity of rennet to be applied, or the 
proper 
