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irtches higher than the furface of the ground with* 

 out, having flanting gutters readily to convey water 

 or any other liquid that might be accidentally fpilt 

 there, (but it is a flovenly dairy-maid who flabbers 

 her floor.) The walls all round fliould be lined 

 with (helves of a convenient breadth in ranges one 

 above the other, on which the difhes may be placed; 

 and in the middle (hould (land a large table, marked 

 by the dotted lines on the plan, which if made of 

 ftone will be found to be more cleanly and conve- 

 nient than any other material. Beneath it a piece 

 of the pavement, about a foot in breadth, fhould 

 be raifed fix inches higher all round than the level 

 of the floor, fp as to form a trough within it for 

 holding water, the ufes of which will be afterwards 

 fpecified. This bafon may be emptied entirely at 

 pleafure, by opening a hole that allows the water to 

 run into the common gutters. 



The intention of all thefe contrivances, it will 

 eafily appear, is merely to enable the attentive 

 owner of a dairy to keep his milk in a proper de- 

 gree of temperature, both during the fummer and 

 the winter feafon, without much trouble or ex- 

 pence to himfelf J as any confiderable variation in 

 the degree of heat tends greatly to derange his 

 operations, and to diminifli the value of the pro- 

 dufts of the dairy. If the heat be too great, the 



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