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tn winter, Ihould the cold ever become too great, 

 it might be occafionally difpelled, either by placing 

 a barrel full of hot water, clofe bunged up, upon the 

 table, where it might be allowed to remain till it 

 cooled — or fome hot bricks might be employed for 

 the purpofe. This I fhould prefer to any kind of 

 chaffing -difli, with burning embers in it, as the va- 

 pour from the coals (which very foon affeds the 

 tafte of the milk)* would thus be avoided. 



The next objeft that demands attention is, the 

 utenfils of the dairy, Thefe in general muft, from 

 the nature of the bufinefs, be made of wood. But 

 of late many perfons, who afFeft a fuperior degree 

 of elegance and neatnefs, have employed veflcls 

 made of lead, or of common earthen-ware, for va- 

 rious purpofes in the dairy. But, as the acid of 

 milk very readily difTolves lead, brafs, or copper, and 

 with thefe forms a compound of a poifonoiis nature; 

 fuch veflels muft be accounted highly pernicious in 

 the dairy, and therefore ought to be banifhed from 

 it. The fame may be faid of veflels of any of the 

 common kinds of earthen ware, which being glazed 

 with lead, and the glazing foluble in acid, are equally 



• Where a houfe is not well, accommodated with cellars, it is fuffi- 

 ciently obvious that they mif ht be built upon the fame plan, and thus 

 at a fmall expence might be reared, cellars that would be, in every rc- 

 fpc<fl, as good as the beft vaults funk deep under ground. 



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