Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1879 — How Skippers Get Into Cheese. [ARTICLE]

How Skippers Get Into Cheese.

Skippers ade hatched front the eggs of the cheese fly. The cheese fly is a very small insect, one of the smallest of the fly family. The fly is most troublesome in hot weather and in September. It lays its eggs usually where the bandage laps over on top of the cheese, and under any little scale, often directly on the top of the cheese and on the sides; often, tdo, on the boards which hold the cheese.If there is a small erack or crevice, the skippers commence to work into the cheese, and when ohee«> are what is termed loose or porous, they work into the cheese rapidly, and if not arrested will work into the center and through the cheese, spoiling it. Thev require air, and this fact is taken advantage of .by the dairyman, in covering the surface of the Cheese with a greased paper, plastering it down securely on the cheese, or on the hole where they art working. This brings them to the surface, when they may be removed. One of the objects of rubbing cheese smartly every day, is to rub off or destroy the eggs of the fly. The tables, in warm weather, should also be washed off with hot whey, or with soap and water and lye, in order to remove grease, so that the fly will not lay eggs nn th" boards, ‘ . -.. Never heard of the fly depositing eggs ou cheese curd, and by that means getting Into the center Of cheese: “Bo not think they could live and hatch ip the center of cheese for want of air.— Massachusetts Piougtothan. -< —A precise flower —the prim-rote- I