CHEESE (ante), manufactured in immense quantity in the eastern and northern United States, particularly in .New York, Ohio, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts, Penn sylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Of 163,000,000 lbs. returned as made in the census year of 1870, 101,000,000 lbs. were made in N. Y. State. Within recent years nearly all descriptions of foreign cheese are imitated in this country, and the most of the imitations are equal to the imported article. Many farmers have ceased to manufacture C. in their own dairies. The milk is taken to large factories, where it is weighed and emptied into a common receptacle. The processes following are directed by trained superintendents, and the average product is greatly improved. The farmers receive either payment for the milk as brought, or a share in the proceeds of the manufacture.
the larva of piophila casei or tyrophaga casei, a small dVeroul (two winged) fly, of the large family muscides, the same to which the house-fl}, blowfly, etc.,
belong. The perfect insect is about a line and a half in length, mostly of a shining black color; antenna, forehead, and some parts of the legs rufous. It is a pest of dairies and store closets, laying its eggs in cracks or crevices of cheese, the destined food of its larvae. To preserve cheeses from this pest, it is of advantage to brush or rub them frequently, and to remove all cracked or injured cheeses from large stores, besides keeping them dry and in a well-aired place. The same rules are applicable to their preservation from the other insect larva by which they are sometimes infested, of which the most notable are those of the bacon beetle (see DERMESTES), and of another species of dipterous fly, musca corvina.