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what the law is in that respect but in my own state of New 

 York it is against the law to do that now and it should be, be- 

 cause there is no excuse for polluting the water for our neigh- 

 bors when we can take care of the waste much more easily by 

 the use of the single box septic tank. I am sorry I have not 

 time to discuss this tank. I am much in favor of the single 

 box, concrete septic tank, built just outside of the dairy wall if 

 you care to have it there, or as far away as you care to buy 

 pipe to carry your sewage to it. The estimated cost of mate- 

 rials of one built for Mr. Ogden last year was $3.60. Any one 

 who knows enough to pile one stone upon another can build a 

 septic tank by following simple plans, which are easily to be 

 had. 



Another thing on which I want to take issue with Mr. Beyer 

 is the necessity of carrying the milk utensils to the kitchen to be 

 washed. There is nothing in the world that costs the dairyman 

 so much as useless steps ; and remember those steps are taken 

 twice a day at least on every dairy farm and on some oftener 

 than that. And when for an expense of $36 we can get a small 

 steam boiler which will furnish the hot water and the heat and. 

 the steam for sterilizing, I think we are very short sighted 

 dairymen to carry our utensils to the kitchen to be washed. 

 That was tried at Good Will for a good many years. Now we 

 have the sterilization and it makes a wonderful difference not 

 only in the time but in the efficiency and the results, because of 

 course the utensils cannot be sterilized in the kitchen as a rule. 

 Live steam is infinitely preferable and takes very little time, 

 so I would always have a boiler in the milk room, or rather, I 

 should say, milk house, with two rooms. I would never build 

 a house without two rooms, one for the care of the milk and the 

 making of the butter, etc., and one for the care of the utensils, — 

 where the utensils are washed and stored. 



Another thing which I decidedly object to is tarred paper. On 

 my own farm in Central New York we make butter for a fancy 

 trade, and at one time I conceived a notion that it was costing 

 me entirely too much for turning the crank and so I bought a 

 gasoline engine. A gasoline engine is all right in the other 

 room, to pump the water, but it must not get into the milk 

 room. The very first batch of butter that went to the citv 

 brought back this response from nearly all our customers, in 



