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III. A curing room for cheese has been provided, wherein lots of cheese, to be 

 made under the direction of the Dairy Commissioner, will be kept and cured, in order 

 10 obtain further information on the most profitable practices and treatments in the 

 manufacture and ripening of that article of food. 



IV. The keeping properties of butter as affected by different treatments during 

 the process of making will be tested ; and examinations will be commenced and 

 continued regarding the suitability of certain packages for the preservation of butter 

 for the foreign markets. 



V. The use of dairy salt of Canadian manufacture will be continued, and its 

 adaptation for the preservation of butter will be compared with other brands. 



YI. Dairy appliances and apparatus of different sorts will be used and reported 

 on, as far as time will permit, and the needs and interests of the public seem to 

 require. 



The following figures illustrate the plan and construction of the building : — 



Fig. I ; Experimental Dairy Building. 





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Note. — Ta.^. floor of the working room is inclined to the middle and end where the drain is, as she^vn 

 on the plan, but there is no gutter. The floor is finished with two coats of oil applied hot. 



The ceilings of the refrigerators are 7' 6" high and the ice is put over them direct from the ice house ; 

 they are constructed with galvanised iron troughs between the ceiling joists. 



