Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1891-07-16
What Il i, and More Particularly what

What 1t Is. and More Particularly What
1t Is Not.
When man in cheese factory has a
weighing can all greasy inside and all
spattered outside, he is not ready to sell
skill. He is going to contaminate the
milk, and skill and contamination won't
60 into partnership in dairy work When
man has not the milk spout washed
oftener than once week, he is not going
to apply any skill: and he cannot sell
skill that way, for skill does not run
through a pipe like that Let me tell
you right here that when man sells
anything that he gets from farmer, he
never sells at q profit except when he
sells skill You cannot get material
from the farm and sell that alone at a
profit. When man makes good butter
he sells skin, and that pays; but bad
milk and bad butter are so limited in
their capacity for holding skill that the
buyer never detects the skill, and so he
does not pay for it.
Then when a man has milk vat that
has been painted, and that may be paint
ed yet for all any observer can tell from
its outside, he is not ready to sell skill
Then when cheesemaker does not have
the hoops in his factory scrubbed oftener
than twice year, he may sell some skill,
but somehow the skill outside is applied
unskillfully; and you know If you have
skill in a cheese with rough outside,
the buyer wants to get the cheese for
the price of unskillfully made goods. l
will give you little wrinkle here. If
you win buy few cents worth Of borax
and wash your hoops with that once a
week, believe you would seldom have
mold on the sides of the cheese. have
had cheeses stored inrather damp place
for a long while that have been treated
in that way, and cannot find any mold
coming on them yet. Skill can be sold
that way to advantage.
Then if man has a strainer cloth on
his vat, through which the milk can
hardly find passage at all-well, he has
damned the channel of skill It does
not run that way. Suffer me to say q
few plain things here. There are cheese
makers who write to me complaining OF
the careless neglect Of the farmer in not
airing his milk. when they have a
strainer cloth that would completely
counteract all the good Of aeration. The
cheesemaker should remember that it is
good thing not to complain of the mote
in his neighbor's eye when there Is q
beam in every part Of his strainer's eye.
Then he viii have made provision
for selling skill when the steampipe is in
such order that it does not scorch the
milk the first thing. A man provides
for selling skill when he buys or prepares
the rennet extract before the season be-
gins He provides for selling skill when
he does not make up his coloring in such
a way that may be it will fade away and
leave his cheese all like Aberdeen gran
ite, yellow and black and red Cheese
is not sold on account of its variegated
colors Then he should see that the rem
net permeates every part of the whole
portion of the milk uniformly. When
the curd is thickened, his skill will en-
able him to use the knife first that will
give him the best service, and while men
may differ in this rather unimportant
practice, find the cheesemaker will sell
the most skill with the least work by us
ing the horizontal knife first. Professor
Robertson.