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improper. Mr» Hayes has recommended caft-iron 

 as a proper fubftitute for thefe; but this metal alfo 

 is foluble in acids; and though the fokition be not 

 poifonous like the others, yet, as it may affedl the 

 tafte of the produds of the dairy, and render their 

 medical qualities different from what they would 

 naturally have been, the ufe of thefe alfo fhould be 

 laid afide. In fhort, excepting vefTels of true por- 

 celain, or glafs, which are greatly too expenfive, 

 1 know of none that could be with propriety fubfti- 

 tuted for wooden veflels, in the dairy. China or 

 glafs veflels, however, for obvious reafons, can 

 never come into general ufe in the dairy; nor will 

 the fenfible hufbandman ever think of any other 

 than wooden difhes for his milk; as thefe, if pro- 

 perly managed, can be kept as fweet and pure as 

 the imagination can conceive. This fa61: is fo ge- 

 nerally known as to render wooden dairy utenfils 

 common in moft parts of the country, fo as that 

 they can be readily procured every where of a pro- 

 per quality, and form of conftrudion, and therefore 

 nothing more on this fubje6t need be here faid. 



The creaming difhes (fo I call the veflfels in which 

 the milk is placed for throwing up cream) when 

 properly cleaned, fweet, and cooly are to be filled 

 with the milk as foon after it is drawn from the 



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