FARM ECHOES. 93 



These boxes are taken to this room as they are returned 

 from New York and Brooklyn. Thence the bottles are 

 carried to the wash-room adjoining. The boxes are then 

 cleaned and got ready for use again. When needed they 

 are lowered to cellar by elevator, from there they are 

 sent by four two-horse teams to the railroad depot for 

 transmission to New York and Brooklyn. 



The boiler-room connects with the dairy on the north, 

 and hot-water pipes extend thence to every part of the 

 dairy building, for heating and for washing purposes. 



The ice-house, having a capacity of more than five 

 hundred tons, is not far from the dairy. 



Some cows, generally those not giving milk, are kept 

 in the barn shown in the picture on the opposite page. 



The horse-barn measures sixty-six feet by forty feet, 

 with a communicating L fifty feet long, which gives 

 room for fourteen horses in a row. The wagon-room, 

 forty-six feet by forty feet, has but one post a mas- 

 sive one in the center of the room thus giving ample 

 space for wagons and for moving them as desired. 



Quite a small churn was first used in my dairy. This 

 was replaced by a larger one, requiring two persons to 

 turn it, one at each end. An increased demand for but- 

 ter called for a yet larger churn, which was worked by 

 pony power. A full-sized horse was soon needed, and 

 now the churning is done by steam, in a large-sized fac- 

 tory churn of a new and greatly improved pattern. 

 There may be others quite its equal, perhaps better, but 

 it does its work so well that I know of no change that 

 could be made to advantage, unless it be the inven- 

 tion of a churn that will produce good butter at one end 



