PROGRESS IN CHEESE MAKING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1957, 22 January 1885, Page 4

PROGRESS IN CHEESE MAKING.

I\ an al>le address on " Milk and the Management of Factories" delivered at the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association in January of last jeai, Mr J. B Hairi^, among other things, said :— " The people of the W'Obt liavo a passion for soft, moist tlu-cbc, and, i think, have an idea that tlif Cheddar system cannot pioduee these qualities. 1 Ins I know by ex ponenee to bo a mistake. As soft cheese can be made by the Cheddar as by any other system."' ..." The West, houc\er, is mnarkablc for its c\p Hiding qualities, and the time is not far off w lien the cheese makers of this State (Wisconsin) will ha\e to consult fuictgn tastes as \\ ell as their own ; and w lieu keeping qualities will have to be placed among the attributes of Rood cheese, in which partieulir, as well as flavour, your cheese is at prc-ont defective." . . . " The result of my e\peiicncc as cheese instructor and milk inspector in the Pio\incc of Ontario, running over a petiod of neatly four yeais, impels me to say something in favour of the system adopted by the Canadians. I knew something of Canadian cheese prior to that date, and have since become quite familiar w ith it. 1 belie\e my statements will be justified by the fact-., when I say tint since the adoption of the instruction system their cheese, aa a w hole, has intrinsically nn proved .10 per cent. We Americans think we know about all there is to be known, and especially is this true of those who attend our Legislatures to make laws for us. The members of the Ontaiio Lcgislatmc, however, have in one p-uticular furnished us with an example of wisdom which Amciicans would do well to follow. For the last eight, oi ten years they have apprnpi ititcd SOOOdols. annually to the dairy associations of that province, to be used by them in such manner aa they see fit, for the benefit of their daiiying interests. Money was never more wisely appropriated. Let the dahj men of the United States look to it lest in the course of a few years they iind them&clscs stiaggling behind their noithcrn neighbours on the march to improvement in cheese making. If the Legislatures cf our dairying States would follow the example of the Canadians in this matter, and adopt a system of cheese instruction and milk inspection, there can be no doubt that the lesult would be of vast impoitance in the increase of their internal wealth. In milk inspecting alone, if it was understood by the dairymen of this or any State, that a milk inspector was on the load, and liable to confront them at any time, the slovens would be quite likely to put their houses in oidcr against the day and hour of his appeal ance. Such is the case in Canada, and the effect is both salutaiy and healthful to the business.

Thk British merchant marine includes 21, .100 \essels, of which .3,0.10 ate steamer*, with a measurement of 9,200,000 tons, while that of France hns 2,000 vessels, vitli 700 steamers, all measuring 1,000,000 tons. "Timk is Monl\." — An American replied to the question of "Howloncj are you going to stop in London ? " " Four thousand pounds." — Couit Journal. Husband (reading from Scott)— " Not one in twenty marries his first love. How was it in your case ? " Wife — How was it in your's?" Husband — "You mint make the first confession — don't answer like a parrot." Wife— " Well, here's the hone&t trutli : If yon married your fitst love, I married my fiist. If jou didn't, I didn't. ' 1\ Great Hi itain 990,000,000 gallons of beer arc annually bicwed, in Germany, 900,000,000 ; in the United States, 000,000,000; in France, 1 .17, 500, 000 ; in Aiißtna and Hungaiy, 280,000,000 ; in Belgium, 210,250,000 ; in Holland, 34,000,000; in Russia, 8,000,000; in Switzerland, 13,. r >oo,ooo ; in Denmark, 28,000,000; in Sweden, 21,000,000; in Italy* 4,000,000. Total, 3,240,2:50,000 gallons,