DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. 213 



DISCUSSION, 



Opened by Dr. E. M. Santee. 



I am sorry that Mr. Beyer is not here, because I will cer- 

 tainly have to take issue with a number of things he has said in 

 liis paper. The first thing I would criticise would be his tank for 

 storing the milk. Under no circumstances would I have any 

 wood that was not absolutely necessary in the milk room or 

 about it. Perhaps up to the time that the Van Gilder or hollow 

 wall machine was invented, his assertion in regard to cement 

 might hold true. It will not hold true today because by the 

 use of a Van Gilder machine, or any other machine of that 

 type, a tank can be built for half the money that a pine plank 

 tank, zinc lined, would cost, and be infinitely preferable because 

 always sweet and easy to keep clean, and it will be there when 

 Gabriel blows his trumpet while the other will decay in a few- 

 years. 



Next, in regard to the walls, by the use of a hollow wall 

 ■machine we can build outside walls of a dairy for less money 

 than they can be built of wood alone, much less of wood plas- 

 tered with cement. I have been in a great many milk rooms of 

 the last mentioned kind and I have yet to see one that had 

 lasted a year which was free from holes made in the plaster by 

 something having been hit against it. The hollow wall concrete, 

 3 inches inside and 4 inches outside, is amply sufficient in thick- 

 ness, costs less money, is very much more satisfactory, is abso- 

 lutely indestructible and to my mind altogether preferable. 



A very important thing in connection with the milk room is 

 the disposal of the sewage and I would like to take a few 

 minutes of your time on that subject. It is a subject which ought 

 to be discussed in meetings of this kind. In the old days when 

 the dairyman fitted up a drain of that kind he depended upon 

 running the water into some flowing stream. I do not know 



