. Cheddar cheese making. 44 CHEDDAR CHEESE MAKING. never to have been used. The curd mills got a bad reputation from such members of the family as the Elgin mill, and even to-day, it is hard to restore the decent members of the family, to the confidence of all cheese makers. Pohl MilL The next form of peg mill, which I think is the best peg mill ever invented, is the Pohl mill, which has sharp teeth on two cylinders, revolving at different velocities, which pick the curd to pieces. The objec- tion to this mill is, that it does not leave the curd in the same sized pieces. Some of the pieces wil
. Cheddar cheese making. 44 CHEDDAR CHEESE MAKING. never to have been used. The curd mills got a bad reputation from such members of the family as the Elgin mill, and even to-day, it is hard to restore the decent members of the family, to the confidence of all cheese makers. Pohl MilL The next form of peg mill, which I think is the best peg mill ever invented, is the Pohl mill, which has sharp teeth on two cylinders, revolving at different velocities, which pick the curd to pieces. The objec- tion to this mill is, that it does not leave the curd in the same sized pieces. Some of the pieces will be quite large, while others are small, and when salted, the salt will not be evenly distributed. There is a self- salting attachment to the mill, but it is useless, as a curd is never ready to salt when milled. Whitlow MilL A knife-mill does not jam the curd as much as a peg-mill does. It simply cuts it. One of the earliest forms of knife-mills was built. COMMON KNIFE CURD MILL. after the form of peg-mills, as is seen in the Whit- low mill of Canada. There are a number of knives on a shaft which play between knives in the side of the hopper. When the curd is put into the hopper, it. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Decker, John Wright, d. 1907. Madison, Wisconsin, The author
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