MAN WHO MAKES HOLEB 



IN CHEESE DISCOVERED 5^ 



That whiskered wise crack about thi *• 

 man who makes the holes in Swisi ^ 

 cheese is no Joke after all. There is ~ 

 such a person. He lives in Sugarcreek,^ 

 Tuscarawas county, centre of Ohio's -wV^ 

 cheese industry, and Uncle Sam himt*~- 

 self pays him to see to it that there are ? 

 enough holes of the right size In thai 

 domestic product. ^ 



He is R. E. Hardell, ofificial govern-^ 

 ment supervisor of the local cheese in- ,■ 

 dustry. and he sheds new light on thai 

 anciRiii mystery of how and why thefT^K 

 are holes. 



It seems that with good luck in th(!S> 

 natural course of making a chee.se it wilJ V» 

 develop holes. The size and number oi-^ 

 holes, however, always have been a maL^t 

 ter beyond the control even of the na-^p 

 tive Swiss cheese experts. And Swisj r* 

 cheese, as every one knows, is not Swiss fl^ 

 cheese unless It has a goodly number oi X 

 nice big holes, well distributed. So th< r 

 problem is how to insure proper holes .'.i 

 in every cheese. Holes, by the way, are :,; 

 known as "eyes" in the cheese industry, r. 



la the more modern chee.se factories 

 this difficulty is met by the use of a 

 culture of bacteria known as "eye cult- ■ '■ 

 ure," because it produces the holes In . ' 

 the cheese and helps make the typical 

 flavor. It is this cultm-e that is madg 

 and distributed by the government su- 

 pervisor. ; 



