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cooler into the kitchen to wash, together with the milk pails, is 

 all the labor required. 



Of course, a few wooden racks to hold milk pails and what 

 few other things are necessary should be built ; but I would 

 recommend that they be not fastened to the floor or walls, but 

 just stood in the corner, so they can be moved to wash under- 

 neath and around them. The cost of these is very little. 



The separator is necessary on many farms, but there is noth- 

 ing in particular which need be said of it in connection with the 

 consideration of the milk room. 



It is my judgment that a milk room with cement plaster walls, 

 cement floor and a milk cooler through which ice water can be 

 pumped from an ice water tank, which is likewise a refrigerator, 

 is all that is necessary to care properly for the milk. 



A milk room of this sort can be built and equipped at a cost 

 of from one hundred to one hundred seventy-five dollars. 



