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story high ; ice-house, 12 by 16 feet, with butter cellar underneath ; en- 
gine-room, 12 by 16 feet. The cheese-room (wing) is built 3 feet below 
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the level of the main building, that the milk may be conducted instead of 
carried. If intended for winter use, the first story must be of stone, 
with walis 18 inches thick. The partitions should be of brick. The 
cost is estimated, upon the basis of freight and material in Fox River 
Valley, as follows: masonry, $500; superstructure, $2,200; equipment, 
$1,800; total, $4,500. The points of excellence claimed are compact- 
ness, capacity in proportion to cost, adaptability to any site, change of 
size without change of plan, and adaptation to either winter or summer 
Work. 
DAIRYING IN CALIFORNIA. 
Favored by an equable climate, the dairy interest is rising to a prom- 
inent position in California, and promises to add largely to the wealth 
of the State at no distant day, both in meeting the demand for home 
consumption and in the increase of exports. The counties of Lake, 
Sonoma, Marin,. San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey, and 
San Luis Obispo, forming the central-coast section of California, con- 
stitute the chief dairy section of the State. The more northern counties 
of Mendocino and Humboldt, though perhaps equally well adapted to 
the dairy by soil and climate, are as yet scantily settled and poorly pro- 
