Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-17
Large Cheeses.

Large cheeses are not in demand either
at home or abroad 1t is true, a very few
such cheeses are ordered for the Christmas
sales i'll England as "show cheeses," and a
higher price is usually paid for them at
such times than for the ordinary sz d
cheese. But there is no regular demand
for such large cheeses, and we cannot
recommend their manufacture except in
cases where they are specially ordered.
Some of the Herkimer County factories
have orders to make few large cheeses in
the fall, to meet the wants OF parties for
the special purpose named, but the de-
mand for such style of cheese is SO
limited that we should not consider it ad.
visable for any factory to enter upon their
manufacture without knowing to GER
tainty where they are to be placed, and
the price which they are to bring.
The manufacture Of large cheeses is at
tended with some risk, as they are I'M
wieldy, and liable to be marred or broken
by handling in the curing room and during
their transit to market An accident be
falling cheese weighing from four hun
dIed to six hundred pounds, makes quite
serious loss, and unless very high price
is guaranteed on sales, the extra risk and
trouble in manufacturing will be likely to
render the profits on such cheeses no
more and perhaps less than for small
sizes.
4 few years ago the 1ngersoll Factory,
of Canada, under the management OF
James Harris 81 Co., undertook to "beat
the world in the production of large
cheese, and in tbis they were quite sue
cessful, as the larges: cheese, concerning
which we have any record, was made at
that establishment And although this
cheese was properly pressed and cured
and exhibited at different fairs without &C
cdent, and then shipped in safety to Eng
land, the experiment proved pecuniary
loss to the factory-tnat is to say, the money
received from all sources, after paying
expense, was less than would have been
obtained had the curds been made into a
number of smaller cheeses This cheese
weighed 1000 pounds. 1t was six feet
I IN inches in diameter, three in hight and
about twenty one feet in circumference.
To make it, thirty five tons Of milk were
required, or one milking OF 1900 cows.
1t was bandaged with white cloth, and its
shape was in every respect perfect.
10 transport this immense cheese to the
railroads and from place to place, very
heavy wagon was specially manufactured
tOI IAO AOcPih Az "eSo r.
ed was placed upon the mammoth, and the
ends inclosed with heavy plank above and
below, held in place by rods OF iron firmly
secured with nuts. L. is not very probable
that an attempt will very soon, if ever,
be made "in the cheese line" to out do "
this Canadian mammoth.
In making very large cheeses, unless
due caution be taken, there will be dim
Guilty in expellng the whey, aud if the
whey is not properly expelled under the
press, or otherwise, the cheese will be sure |
TO turn off bad flavor. Several very large |
cheeses have BEN spoiled by not attend.
ing to this particular. The method adopted
at the Ingersoll factory, and one which
proved to be successful was to divide the
curds into small psrcels-say from fifty TO |
seventy pounds-and pressing thoroughly |
in hoops. Then after the whey had been |
expelled, the cheeses were broken up and
passed through the curd mill, and after
being thoroughly mingled together, we're
placed in q large hoop, where the curd as.
sumed its proper shape under powerful
New Yorker.
The Lafayette Qnd) Courier says:
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