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The other apartment, C, may be employed as a 

 kind of (lore-room, in which the cured butter, and 

 other products of the dairy, and fpare utenfils, may 

 be locked up, till it becomes convenient to tranf- 

 port them elfewhere,* 



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• If the dairy be fituate fo near a town as that Ice could be difpofed 

 of with profit in fummer, it might be ver)' ufeful to convert this apart-^ 

 ment into an ice-houfe, which would be on many occafions a very con- 

 venient appendage of the dairy. All that would be neceflary in this 

 €afe, would be to build the -walls in the fame manner, and make them 

 of the fame thicknefs, with thofe of the apartment A, as marked by the 

 dotted lines i, k, 1, m. The thatch being alfo laid on to the fame 

 thicknefs. If this were intended, firm polls of wood ought to be 

 placed in the floor, as marked in the plan, n, o, p, q, fo as to form an 

 inner fquare, with an open walk all round of two feet in breadth. 

 Within thefe pofts Ihould be placed hurdles of a convenient fliape, 

 formed of wicker work. The wands of which they are made havhig 

 been all peeled, and previoufly dipped in warm coal tar, to preferve 

 them from rotting. Within this fquare is the receptaple for the ice. 

 The ice-houfe to be filled by opening the double doors at K.L. which 

 ^ould then be clofed, not to be opened till it was again to be filled, 

 and the aperture between them to be filled with ftraw rammed firm, 

 to prevent the admiflion of air by that means. The ice to be taken 

 put occafioijallv, as it ^lay be wanted, through the milk-houfe. 



Many would be the conveniences the dairy would derive from this 

 accommodation, and fmall the cxpence. By means of it, the produces 

 of the dairy could be always cooled to the degree in fummer that Ihculd 

 be found to give them their greatefl perfcifllon. Other advantages 

 might occafionally be derived by the attentive farmer from this eafily 

 obtained accommodation; one of which I Ihafl here mention; 



Bees in this climate are found to be a very precarious kind of ftock, 

 though, where they do thrive, they r.re extremely profitable. The clr- 

 cumftance that chiefly occafions their failure here, is the variablencfs of 

 cur climate. In winter we have often mild warm days, little inferior 



