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inilk fuddenly coagulates, without admitting of any 

 reparation of the cream, and it is fo fuddenly ren- 

 dered four as greatly to marr every operation ; if, 

 on the other hand, the milk be kept in too cold a 

 temperature, the cream feparates from it flowly and 

 with difficulty, it acquires a bitter and difagreeablc 

 tafte, the butter can fcarcely be made to come at 

 all, and when it is obtained is fo pale in the colour, 

 fo fmall in quantity, fo- poor to the tafte, hard and 

 brittle of confidence, and of fo little value in every 

 refped, as to bring a very low price at the market, 

 compared to what it would have produced had it 

 been preferved in a proper degree of warmth. To 

 avoid, therefore, as much as pofTible, both thefe 

 extremes, the milk-houfe, properly fo called, is 

 here placed in the centre of the building, into which 

 there is no accefs diredlly from the open air; nor 

 even from the porch, but through a double door, 

 one of which ought always to be (but before the 

 other be opened, when either the heat or the cold of 

 the weather is exceffive, though at other times this 

 precaution may be omitted. The walls of this part 

 of the building are made of earth fo thick, and the 

 roof of thatch fo thick alfo, as diredcd, becaufe it 

 is found thefe fubflances tranfmit heat or cold with 

 lefs facility than any others that can eafily be had, 

 fo that a very long continuance either of hot or cold 



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