The moisture-content of all the cheeses is reduced to a uniform basis of 37 per cent. (See cut showing yield of cheese, [Fig. 52.])

Fig. 52.—The figures represent the relative yield of cheese containing different percentages of fat, but all have a uniform content of 37 per cent water.

TABLE XI

Table Showing the Effect of the Fat-Content ofNormal Milk on the Yield of Cheese
Per Cent of Fat
in the Milk
Per Cent of
Casein in
the Milk
Amount of
Cheese Made
frm 100 Lb.
100 Lb.
of Milk
Pounds of
Amount of Cheese
Made for Each
Pound of Fat
in the Milk

3.00

2.10

8.30

2.77
3.252.208.882.73
3.502.309.452.70
3.752.4010.032.67
4.002.5010.602.65
4.252.6011.172.63
4.502.7011.742.61
4.752.8012.312.59
5.00
2.90
12.90
2.58

213. Fat loss in cheese-making.—The amount of solids lost in the whey also affects the yield. The following table gives the amount of fat lost in whey with normal milk containing different percentages of fat:

TABLE XII

Summary Showing Amount of Fat in Milk Lost inCheese-making
GroupPounds of Fat in
100 Lb. of Milk
Pounds of Fat Lost
in Whey for 100
Lb. of Milk
Per Cent of Fat
in Milk Lost
in Whey

I

3 to 3.5

0.32

9.55
II3.5 to 40.338.33
III4 to 4.50.327.70
IV4.5 to 50.285.90
V
5 to 5.25
0.31
6.00

Table XII shows that the percentage of fat in the whey is approximately the same for milk high or low in fat. But the milk low in fat loses a higher percentage of the total milk-fat in each 100 pounds of whey.