Archive image from page 288 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 -Section ok Cockey's Cheese-tub. it stands a tank, in wliich water is heated for eleansino- the utensils. Where hot water is used for heatinj- tlie milk this apparatus is valuable. The space A in the accompanying il- lustration (Fig. 94) is filled with hot water, which enters by the pipe B, and returns by a similar pipe to the boiler. A large taj) is fixed at the bottom for drawing off the whey, and a smaller one, c, for the removal of
Archive image from page 288 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 -Section ok Cockey's Cheese-tub. it stands a tank, in wliich water is heated for eleansino- the utensils. Where hot water is used for heatinj- tlie milk this apparatus is valuable. The space A in the accompanying il- lustration (Fig. 94) is filled with hot water, which enters by the pipe B, and returns by a similar pipe to the boiler. A large taj) is fixed at the bottom for drawing off the whey, and a smaller one, c, for the removal of the hot water. In the same room stands a tank in which to set whey for cream, butter of a fair quality being made from it. The whey, after skimming, is run ofE through pipes to the piggery cistern. A long wooden tub, or ' cooler,' is used to spread the curd upon after it is taken from the tub, and upon this is fixed a simple curd-mill, having a cylinder in which square teeth are inserted spirally, these working through a rack of square bars. It is turned by hand, and grinds the curd well, though it is not necessarily the best in the market. The press in use is a screw and lever machine of simi>le Fig. 95.—Pkess. construction (Fig. 95). The screw-opening vat (Fig. 96) is used; this was introduced by Mr. Harding, and is the best yet invented for large cheeses. A tin milk-receiver, consisting of a hopper, to which is attached a pipe, is so placed— the hopper being outside and the pipe passing through the wall, with its other end resting on the side of the cheese-tub—as to allow the milkers 31
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