WORLD'S LARGEST CHEESE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1303, 5 December 1911, Page 10

WORLD'S LARGEST CHEESE.

SEVENTY-TWO ,TONS OF. MILK USED A short,'time ago wo"published some particulars of tie large cheese which was to lie on exhibition'at the National Hairy Show in Chicago.' Further del ails to hand show that the cheese weished ; 12,3G11b. and contained exactlv . 12,0001b. of curd, UHOlb. of salt,, and 3llb. of rennet but not an ounce; colouriiiß. The cost of. building .was-between dolk'rs and 'GOOB 'dollars.' j,o ; isuccc-ssfully this gigantic cheese it wai ne'cef-liary 1 tor tha ; ; i2OO model 'dairies to I (16tlm""milking of. : . 8800 rcgiitered llolstein aiid .G.uernsey cows a 1 the same hour; the milk liiuf to'" l>e cooled to the saiiie toiuper'aj;iire; and the thirty-two sanitary;,cheesq',factories which manufactured the curd liad to follow the same process to make . the curd uniform. Every tool ;,or implement which came into contact -with tho■ curd was sterilised. It reqiiired 1-1!-,10(1. pounds (72 tons), or 18,000 gallons, of-milk to prodtico tho 12,000 pounds of ciird, which was delivered ill cans, each containing from 125 to 130' pounds of curdj

Tho different lots of cunl wore mixed in two troughs, each ten feet lons, four feet wide, antl three feet deep, and the entire mixture then poured into a mammoth cask, five feet in diameter nnd. live feet deep, which was braced with iron hoops.