2l6 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



the can and about the necessity of circulating the water. In the 

 South you will find a great many plants where a system of cir- 

 culating the water is adopted ; sometimes it is done by a gaso- 

 line engine but more often you will find it being pumped by a 

 boy who takes charge of the weighing and recording. A boy 

 15 or 16 years old. a son of the family if there is such an indi- 

 vidual, looks out for that part of the work. But the gasoline 

 engine makes a faithful worker and a very satisfactory one if 

 the fumes of the gasoline are kept entirely away from the 

 milk room. 



In regard to the figures given on building, I am inclined to 

 think they are very low for that kind of building. Last year, 

 while connected with the New York Department of Agriculture. 

 the concrete demonstration work was done by the speaker. 

 At Kinderhook, we built of hollow wall construction a milk 

 house 12 by 16, a Httle bit larger outside on account of the 

 thickness of the walls which were 9 1-2 inches thick. The 

 total cost of material for the house, including the boiler equip- 

 ment and all the other equipment already discussed, also a 

 cooler, was $123.44. I have not included the labor for the rea- 

 son that there is such a difference in cost of labor in different 

 places ; and it makes a dift'erence if we can do a part of the 

 work ourselves on the farm. At Good Will we have recently 

 finished a dairy very much larger than that ; not because it was 

 needed so much, as a dairy, but you will readily see that our 

 problem there is very different from that of the ordinary dairy- 

 man. There we have the boy to look after, and the boy comes 

 first. It is the education of the boy we are aiming at. We had 

 to have a laboratory and we had a dormitory over it ; that house 

 cost a great deal more. I have not the exact figures, but the 

 material cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $600.00. It is 

 made of double wall concrete. I want to say a word about the 

 advantage of that double wall. We find the house very cool in 

 summer and very easily warmed in winter. Because of the air 

 space the heat is kept out in summer and the cold in winter, and 

 that is the reason why I should use this kind of a house rather 

 than the one advocated by the writer of the paper. 



In regard to the storage tank, I have never found a great 

 deal of fault with the ordinary four inch thick single wail 

 storage tank. It is not very bad in the consumption of ice. 



