Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 40318-h.htm or 40318-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40318/40318-h/40318-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40318/40318-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/bookofcheese00thomrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by plus signs is in bold face (+bold+). THE BOOK OF CHEESE * * * * * The Rural Text-Book Series EDITED BY L. H. BAILEY _Carleton_: THE SMALL GRAINS. _B. M. Duggar_: THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANT PRODUCTION. _J. F. Duggar_: SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS. _Gay_: BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK. _Gay_: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF JUDGING LIVE-STOCK. _Goff_: PRINCIPLES OF PLANT CULTURE. _Guthrie_: BOOK OF BUTTER. _Harper_: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY FOR SCHOOLS. _Harris and Stewart_: PRINCIPLES OF AGRONOMY. _Hitchcock_: TEXT-BOOK OF GRASSES. _Jeffery_: TEXT-BOOK OF LAND DRAINAGE. _Jordan_: FEEDING OF ANIMALS. Revised. _Livingston_: FIELD CROP PRODUCTION. _Lyon_: SOILS AND FERTILIZERS. _Lyon, Fippin and Buckman_: SOILS, THEIR PROPERTIES AND MANAGEMENT. _Mann_: BEGINNINGS IN AGRICULTURE. _Montgomery_: THE CORN CROPS. _Morgan_: FIELD CROPS FOR THE COTTON-BELT. _Mumford_. THE BREEDING OF ANIMALS. _Piper_: FORAGE PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE. _Sampson_: EFFECTIVE FARMING. _Thom_ and _Fisk_: THE BOOK OF CHEESE. _Warren_: THE ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. _Warren_: FARM MANAGEMENT. _Wheeler_: MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. _White_: PRINCIPLES OF FLORICULTURE. _Widtsoe_: PRINCIPLES OF IRRIGATION PRACTICE. * * * * * [Illustration: FIG. 1.--A cheese laboratory in the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University.] THE BOOK OF CHEESE by CHARLES THOM Investigator in Cheese, Formerly at Connecticut Agricultural College and WALTER W. FISK Assistant Professor of Dairy Industry (Cheese-Making), New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University New York The Macmillan Company 1918 All rights reserved Copyright, 1918, By the Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1918. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE