. Milch cows and dairy farming; comprising the breeds, breeding, and management, in health and disease, of dairy and other stock; the selection of milch cows, with a full explanation of Guenon's method; the culture of forage plants, and the production of milk, butter, and cheese ... with a treatise upon the dairy husbandry of Holland; to which is added Horsfall's system of dairy management . an, or hired man. Thisworking with the feet is continued, just as in kneadingdough, till all is brought to a stiff paste. When it has come to this consistence the forming ofthe cheese begins. The dairyman
. Milch cows and dairy farming; comprising the breeds, breeding, and management, in health and disease, of dairy and other stock; the selection of milch cows, with a full explanation of Guenon's method; the culture of forage plants, and the production of milk, butter, and cheese ... with a treatise upon the dairy husbandry of Holland; to which is added Horsfall's system of dairy management . an, or hired man. Thisworking with the feet is continued, just as in kneadingdough, till all is brought to a stiff paste. When it has come to this consistence the forming ofthe cheese begins. The dairyman has for this purposea cheese-mould standing before him,and lays on the bottom a layer ofcheese without spice, and this iscalled the blind layer. The cheese: tub or mould, Pigs. 123 and 124, isused only for this first moulding. Itis a wooden vat, made of staves fromone to one and a half inches thick,and is nine and a half to twelve and a half inches indiameter, and about ten inches high, bound at thebottom and top with stout bottom of oak-wood, put invery carefully, is pierced with holesfor letting off any moisture that mayremain in the cheese. On the top of* the tub a cover is exactly fitted, tosink down upon the cheese whenthe pressure is applied. This coveris of oak, one and a half inches thick, and has a cross-piece three and a half inches thick, which serves as Kg. 123.
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