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I have had some correspondence with the company in Dayton. 

 Ohio, and they tell me that a filter like the one illustrated with 18 

 tubes should filter 250 gallons a day. This, I presume, would be 

 enough for the average creamery, if used only for the washing of the 

 butter. The cost is somewhere about $100, and this should not 

 prevent their use if they prove otherwise practical. I refer to the 

 trouble of cleaning the "candles" every day. The water is forced 

 into the upper part of the filter and through the "candles' 1 and 

 out at A. 



I hope to see this filter given a fair trial. 



A PLEA FOR BETTER BUILDINGS. 



It is not only with a view to amuse the reader that I have repro- 

 duced a picture of the old Swiss cheesefactory and its contrast, the 

 Modern German creamery, on page 74. 



Though the first mentioned picture is from an engraving about 

 200 years old, I regret to say that I have seen cheesefactories within 

 10 years that were but a small step advanced from this! 



Nor can it be said that very many creameries are built so as to 

 make it possible to keep them clean bacteriologically clean or, if 

 you please dairyologically clean. 



I know I shall incur the criticism of those men, who, at their own 

 risk, build creameries, so to say, on the suffrage of the farmers. These 

 may at any time see the farmers build one in opposition. 



Nor do I deny the justice of such criticism, calling my demand 

 for creameries similar to the modern one shown as an. unpractical un- 

 businesslike proposal, when looked at from their standpoint. 



Yet I shall raise my voice and use my pen as long as I live for 

 better creamery and cheese factory buildings, and challenge any criti- 

 cism if made from the standpoint of the permanent interest of the 

 milk producers. 



There is a great cry against expensive creameries, but that has 

 been because these buildings were not better than the cheap ones, 

 yet the objection always remains against the increased interest on 

 money invested. 



Let us investigate this question a little. In this country the in- 

 terest is higher than in Europe and hence I shall not challenge the 

 claim that we can afford to put up a cheap wooden building for, let 

 us say $3,000, for a 5,000 Ib. creamery and rebuild it when rotten for 



