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From thefe general obfervations on miJk, it is 

 neceflary we fhould proceed to particulars. No 

 dairy can be managed with profit, gnlcfs a place 

 properly adapted for keeping the milk, and for 

 carrying on the different operations of the dairy, be 

 firft provided. The neceflary requifites of a good 

 milk-houfe are, that it be cool in fummer, and warm 

 in winter, fo as to preferve a temperature nearly the 

 fame throughout the whole year; and that it be di-y, 

 fo as to admit of being kept clean and fweet at all 

 times. As it is on mod occafions difficult to con- 

 trive a place within the dwelling-houfe that can 

 poflefs all thefe requifites, I would advife that a fe- 

 parate building fhould be always eredled, which, 

 upon the plan I (hall now defcribe, may in every 

 fituation be* reared at a very fmall expence, and 

 will anfwer the purpofe much better than any of 

 thofe expenfive ftrudlures I have feen, that were 

 built by noblemen or gentlemen for this ufe. 



This (Iruclure ought, if pofllble, to be ere<5led 

 near to a cool fpring, or running water, where eafy 

 accefs can be had to it by the cows, and where it is 

 not liable to be incommoded by.ftagnant water. It 

 fhould confift of a range of narrow buildings as in the 

 plan J* that divifion in the middle, marked A, being 

 the milk-houfe properly fo called. The walls of this 



t Sec the plate a^ocxqd, 



building 



