Essays on the Management of the Dairy: Including the Modern Practice of the Best Districts in the Manufacture of Cheese and Butter ...J. Harding, 1816 - 178 pages |
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Page vi - Act had not been made ; that is to say, eleven Days later than the same would have happened, according to the nominal Days of the said new Supputation of Time, by which the Commencement of each Month, and the nominal Days thereof are anticipated or brought forward by the Space of eleven Days, any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Page 62 - ... second interval of time is greater in quantity and richer in quality than that which rises in a third equal space of time. That of the third is greater than that of the fourth, and so of...
Page ii - Abridge the same, either in the like, or any other Volume or Volumes whatsoever, or to Import, Buy, Vend, Utter or Distribute any Copies thereof Reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforesaid Term of Fourteen Years...
Page 67 - ... apart, where fine butter is wanted, can be employed with the greatest profit. In the highlands of Scotland the people have adopted a practice, merely from considerations of convenience and economy, without thinking of the improvement of the butter, which answers many good purposes. As the rearing of calves is there a principal object with the farmer, every cow is allowed to suckle her own calf with a portion of her milk, the remainder only being employed for the purposes of the dairy. To give...
Page 17 - The sap carries water and plant-foods from the roots to the leaves and from the leaves to the growing parts of the tree. That is why it is so important to keep the bark from being injured, for if the bark is cut or bruised or bored into by insects, the tree loses sap and is weakened. 8.
Page 65 - ... would thus be able to remark, without any trouble, the quantity of milk afforded by each cow every day, as well as the peculiar qualities of the cow's milk. And if the same cow's milk were always to be placed on the same part of the shelf, having the cow's name written beneath, there never...
Page 66 - If it be intended to make butter of a very fine quality, it will be advisable, not only to reject entirely the milk of all those cows which yield cream of a bad quality, but also, in every case, to keep the milk that is first drawn from the cow, at each milking, entirely separate from that which is got last ; as it is obvious, if this be not done, the quality of the butter must be greatly debased, without much augmenting its quantity.
Page 57 - Of the milk that is drawn from any cow at one time, that part which comes off at the first is always thinner, and of a much worse quality for...
Page 14 - ... and when the heaps are raised as high as convenient for the horses to draw up, several loads should be shot up at the ends of the heaps, for the purpose of making them up to the square of the centre : the whole heaps should then be completely covered with the marl and clay, or soil previously collected in rows by the sides of the heaps...
Page 64 - Milk which is put into a bucket or other proper vessel, and carried in it to a considerable distance, so as to be much agitated and in part cooled before it be put into the milk-pans to settle for cream, never throws up so much or so rich a cream as if the same milk had been put into the milk-pans, without agitation, directly after it was milked.