water or hot whey, as has been done by some, to scald the curd, &c. The copper box in which the water is heated for washing and other uses, is placed under the spout of the pump, and requires no moving of water in pails from the pump. The fountain of cold water was obtained by digging into a hill, eighty rods from the cheese house, and making a ditch eight feet deep for twenty rods, and placing small stones for a drain at the bottom; and at the end. of the drain, a well was dug ten feet deep, at which place the aqueduct logs commence and lead to the barn-yard, where a double penstock is placed, and thus admits the passage of the water to the cheese house, and giving a supply of water to the yard and also to the cheese house. I have an ice house some five rods from the cheese house near the dwelling house, for the use of which it was built. I do not find it necessary to use ice in cooling the milk, but use it in making what butter I want for my family; and I think it indispensable to any good dairy, and a great convenience to any family, and a cheap luxury to all. The floor of the room in which I make the cheese is so constructed that there is a small descent to one point near the center and to which all water, slops, or whey, &c. will run and pass through the floor and into a drain. This keeps all the sills and timbers of the house dry and therefore from decay. And for the convenience of getting out the last of the whey and curd from the tin cheese vat, there is a long lever fastened to a beam over the cheese vat with a rod fastened to one end of it, and the other to one end of the cheese vat. Then the lever is easily made to lift one end of the cheese vat, and giving it sufficient inclination to get out the last of the whey and curd, and also assist in washing it out, &c. There is a plug in the center of the cover to the steam-kettle which is taken out every morning and water put in to replace the amount lost by evaporation, and also to give a place to insert a small pump for the purpose of changing the water or cleaning out the kettle, &c. There is also arranged in the cheese room a sinall platform on which the cheese as it comes from the press is weighed, and thus the amount of salt required from day to day is known. There is also an under ground passage from the whey tunnel to the hog house which conveys the whey from the sink to the hog house. I have made cheese fourteen years, and in that time have tried a number of experiments, having seen to the manufacture mostly and for some years made it myself, keeping from forty to sixty cows at different times. Rutland, Jefferson county. MOSES EAMES. .... Bill of Expenses for cheese house and apparatus for making cheese, &c. ... $25 63 3 21 31 40 22 75 Pine for cheese tables, at $20.00 per M., 682 feet,...... 13 64 750 608 feet of hewn timber at 3d per foot,. 1000 feet of 4 by 4 rafters at 4.50 per M., 700 feet of sleepers, at $4.50 per M., 320 feet of studs 4 by 4, at $4.50 per M., Carpenter job, for work, Mason work,..... 250 pounds of nails at 7 cents per pound,.. 8 windows or 116 lights and sash,.. 18 18 4 50 3 15 1 48 75 00 600 18 75 4 64 Box of glass 7 by 9,. 2.25 Brick water cistern,.. Cheese press, $10.00, and 5 hoops $8.00, Stove and pipe, 16 00 Turning table, on rollers, 1 50 Steam pipe from kettle to water and to the cheese vat, and for cold water,..... 3 00 |