The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-10
Preparing Cheese for Market

The Cheese Committee OF the Butter,
Cheese and Egg Exchange of New York
has prepared the following recommen
dations for cheese makers. An .endear-
or to rectify wrong methods requires no
apology from those who try TO effect
some improvement In the dairy dis
tricts of the country it is regarded by
many as of no importance in what man.
ner cheese is boxed, or how and on
which part of the box the weight is
marked Much loss results to owners
from ill-fitting boxes. All cheese boxes
should have double rims; the box should
fit the size of the cheese closely; and if
the band of the box should be found to
be too high it should be evenly cut down
so that the cover rests equally on the
top of the cheese and the edge of the
band. Cheese should never be trans
ported in box the band of which is
lower than the top of the cheese. When
the cover rests on the top of the cheese
alone and the others are piled above,
the motion Of the cars and the heaying
OF steamships grind and break of the
edges and make damaged and unmer-
chantable goods Deterioration on the
shelves waiting for proper boxes from
the mill would be- smaller loss than
damages obtainable by buying from fac
tories arising from this cause. In ordi-
nary weather one scaleboard should. in
all cases, be placed on top of the cheese
and one at the bottom; but in warm
weather there should be two scaleboards
used on the top and two at the bottom.
The reasons for these requirements in
boxing and scaleboarding are obvious.
A cheese packed in a box and touched on
all the outside by the package, renders
the whole steady and less liable to. break
the box The condition also aids in car
rying the goods in better order and pre-
vents huff and swell. Exporters under
stand this thoroughly. and are ready to
expend q good deal of money to reach
such result Why should not factory
men secure their own interest by SINH
larcarep The use of scaleboards can not
be dispensed with at any time, and there
ant that . cheese factory should always
70 be provided with boxes. Their use is
to prevent the surface of the cheese from
sticking to the cover and the bottom of
the box. When cohesion takes place
from the absence of a scaleboard, in
many cases the result of q separation is
the tearing of the surface, and adamage
of several cents per pound. Double
scaleboarding in hot weather is neces-
sary, because the scaleboards absorb the
oil that exudes from the cheese. and thus
causes the goods to show better condition
and more cleanliness of surface.
To the weighing and marking the
weight on the boxes too much, careful
attention can not be given: It is of
course taken for granted that the naked
cheese win be weighed with more liber-
atty that gold-weight. The weight
: should then be marked on the band of
the box, just beside the lap, on the lower
side, and not with q pencil but in stencil
figures. This latter recommendation'ca
not be urged with too much force, Many
people who conduct cheese factories inn
agine that If the weight is marked in
any way no evil consequences can fol-
low; therefore, some cheese are marked
on the covers Phst should never be
done, because, in New York weights are
generally taken off the boxes while
standing in piles from six to ten boxes
. high and any other method involves
more labor. In an cases when marked
on the covers re-marking becomes
necessary ON the band, which pro-
cess consumes time and runs the
risk of mistakes for the men
who rescaleboard and cut down
boxes are not paid at q rate for being so
highly accomplished rs to read accu-
rafeIy the. hierogiyphics. called figures,
which appear on the boxes Even when
marked on the band, some figures in
pencil zare made so large at the factory
that when the band is cut down to a level
with the surface Of the cheese a portion
of the figures isremoved. In this way
the figure 9 becomes either z or 2,
and the figure q /. Many other simi-
lar transformation take place, causing
differences between inyoiced weights
and those actually taken from the boxes
after the coopering is done. Receivers
are blamed by the factorymen for max
ing reductions in weight and bad feel
ing Is engendered, when really the fac
torymen are themselves entirely to
blame for careless or poor marking. All
this can be easily avoided and accuracy
with agreement established by using
stencil figures on the proper part OF the
band. A circular stencil figure plate
car readily be obtained at little cost, and
the process is easily applied
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