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DAIRY TECHNOLOGY 



For the storage or holding of cream the small factory 

 may employ common milk cans, but in the large factory, 

 vats are necessary, and these may be ordinary jacketed 

 tin vats or enameled iron tanks. The last mentioned are 

 perfectly sanitary and easily cleaned, being lined with a 

 thin coating of enamel, perfectly smooth and without a 



FIG. 34. Sweet cream storage rooms. (Ice Cream Trade Journal.) 



seam or crack. A vat having cooling facilities attached 

 is preferred, unless it be placed in a refrigerator room. 



When pasteurization is practiced, the machines used 

 are the same as those made for use in the creamery or 

 city milk plant. 



The ice-cream mixer is used, when large quantities of 

 material are handled at one time, to secure a perfectly 

 uniform mix. This machine is invariably a cooler as 

 well as a mixer. One general style having a horizontal 



