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[Wjames]

James McIntyre's many cheese related works deserve a mention:

"Dairy Ode"

Our muse it doth
refuse to sing
Of cheese made early
in the spring.
When cows give milk
from spring fodder
You cannot make
a good cheddar.

The quality is often vile
Of cheese that is
made in April,
Therefore we
think for that reason
You should make cheese
later in the season.

Cheese making
you should delay
Until about the first of May.
Then the cows do feed
on grassy field
And rich milk they
abundant yield.

Utensils must be
clean and sweet
So cheese with first class
can compete,
And daily polish up
milk pans,
Take pains with vats
and with milk cans.

And it is important matter
To allow no stagnant water,
But water from
pure well or stream
The cow must drink
to give pure cream.

Though ’gainst spring cheese
some do mutter,
Yet spring milk also makes
bad butter,
Then there doth
arise the query
How to utilize it in the dairy.