Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-20

Others keep rennets In pickle or brine,
as many do pork and beef In Lom-
hardy, the stomach after being sailed
md dried. is minced into fine pieces
with pepper and little more salt, and
preserved for use, adding a little whey.
Dairy men think rennet Is best when
ten or twelve months old A bit of
skin Of the size of a half dollar, soaked
in half pint Of warm water with a
little salt, will coagulate milk enough
to make a sixty pound cheese, but rem.
nets are of very variable strength, and
experience and good sense should guide
ones practice. 1t is needless for us
to 90 into details. If we were about
to start a cheese dairy near Nashville,
we should employ person of skill and
recent practice from the North to OBJ
tain the latest improvements. Our OBJ
ject would be educational, not to make
money. We happen to know that good
cheese is meat that needs no cooking
when eaten with bread, and this OBJ
vious advantage tends to enlarge the
daily consumption of cheese by the la
boring people Of the world All the
want is that the cheese shall be a first |
rate article, and as cheap, pound for
pound, as meat. This brings us to the |
question whether the same grass that |
viii form 100 pounds of beef in a dry |
COW vii. produce 100 pounds of cheese, |
(more or less In a COW giving milk? |
The gain is more than three to one in
favor Of milk and milk curds or cheese,
but the labor is more. Nevertheless
it is profitable farm labor, such as col
ored people Of both sexes may learn to
perform.
The intelligent reader will see from
the facts briefly stated, that the con-
version Of grass into good cheese by
the aid Of first class dairy COWS must
soon become a very large industry, not
as a speculation, In which we witness
so many ridiculous failures, but as an
pursuit to feed mankind with
a concentrated, nutritious food that re-
quires no fuel nor time for cooking it.
Every farmer should know that tender
grass forms human blood of the best
quality much cheaper than hay made
Of matured grass or ripe cereals like
corn and wheat. Calves, pigs,
lambs, and babies that have a
plenty of milk grow rapidly.
That new milk well preserved to keep
for future use should be In
demand, need surprise no one. 1t is
the life and strength of human blood,
brain, bone and muscle. A man with
good bread, butter and cheese has his
dinner cooked great convenience
for labOring people. Butter should be
put up by farmers in perfect order in
tin cans, or well-glazed stone crooks, to
exclude all air, as oysters are put up.
These cans and crooks should not be
wasted, but returned to the dairy farm
for use again. Thousands of farmers,
their wives and daughters, get fifty per
cent. extra for nice butter packed in
small paroles to exclude the air. +
Many prefer to sell their milk daily
1t SO much pound to one man or a
who buy it, make guilt-edged
1utter of part, a new-fangled suet
cheese Of a part, and milk,sugar of a
part. Henry and Chevallier found
.hree times the quantity of casein or
,urd in the milk of the COW that was
!ound in that of a healthy woman,
While that Of woman had fifty per cent.
more sugar. We give their analyses as
.oliows: