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and proper, they may nevcrthelcfs be, in fome cafesj 

 at a lofs for the proper way of efFedling their inten- 

 tions, or of guarding againll certain evils, which, if 

 once allowed to take place in the dairy, will not be 

 eafily removed. Some hints, therefore, are fubjoined 

 in a note that may be of fervice to thofe who arc not 

 well acquainted with this department of bufinefs.* 



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* As foon as the cream is fcparated from the milk, the difhes (hould 

 be carried out of the milk-houfe, and immediately emptied, and the 

 flcimmed milk applied to the ufes that the owner of the dairy judges to 

 be moil advantageous to him. As foon after the difhes are emptied as 

 poflible, they muft be well waflied with fcaldlng hot water, which 

 /hould be kept in readinefs for that purpofe ; and as the naked hand 

 cannot be put among the fcalding water, a fcrubbing-brulh of a proper 

 conftrti(5lion muft be kept in readinefs for that ufe. This may be 

 made of a bunch of wircy firmly bound up with flrong packthread, 

 \vhere other materials cannot be had ; but the ftumps of an old heath- 

 befom, after the fmall twigs have been worn ofT, firmly bound toge- 

 ther, are found to anfwer this purpofe remarkably well, nor ought any 

 thing elfe to be fought for where that can be had, for this is both firm 

 and tough, fo as to fland the work extremsly well. 



After the difhes have been thus perfectly fcalded, and thoroughly 

 fcrubbed in every part, they muft be carefully rinfed -with blood-warm 

 water, and well fcoured by hand with a coarfe linen cloth. They arc 

 then to be turned down one by one afe they are finifhed bottom upwards, 

 upon a clean (helving board to drip. When the whole are gone over 

 in this way, the dairy-maid returns to the firft done, and with a dry 

 cloth wipes them one by one as clean as poffiblc* They arc then placed 

 in ranges, fo as to be expofed fully to the adion of the fun and air oa 

 the infide, that the whole of the moifturc may be dried up as quickly 

 as may be; for nothing tends fo foon to deflroy the fweetncfs that is fo 

 defirable in dairy vefTels as for the moifturc to be allowed to remain 

 fong about them. Therefore, in dull foggy weather, when this cannot 



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