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as to enable me, during hot weather, to make use of water moving 

 over the floor of the milk-room, if found advisable. 



This house is twenty feet long and ten feet wide, being divided 

 by a partition in the middle, so arranged that the first room into 

 which the outer door opens, is used as a buttery, and the other, 

 opening only from this, is a milk-room. The floors of both are 

 made of cement, and that of the milk-room is so depressed as to 

 hold, below the outlet for overflow, a depth of two inches of 

 water, which is to be supplied by the overflow of the main tank 

 in the barn, into which cold spring water is forced by a windmill. 

 The water-works not having been completed during the past sea- 

 son, the use of this water has not yet been tested ; but in its place 

 a copious drenching of the floor with well water, a bucketful 

 being thrown in two or three times a day, has had considerable 

 effect in reducing the temperature of the room in warm weather. 



This milk-room has one window opening to the north, and a 

 ventilator through the roof. The shelves on which the milk-pans 

 are placed extend entirely around the four sides of the room, 

 excepting the space occupied by the door, and they consist of 

 square wooden bars, set corner-up, in such a manner that the pan 

 rests only on two edges of wood, the air having free circulation 

 against every part of the pan. The slats are all movable, and 

 may be easily taken out to be washed or aired. Even if it shall 

 be found in practice that the flowing of water over the floor is 

 not beneficial, the room will be, in all respects, well adapted to 

 its purpose, and all the better for having a floor that can be easily 

 washed and scoured, and into which no drop of milk or cream can 

 soak to decay and taint the surrounding air. For winter use the 

 milk-pans should be set In a slightly warmed closet in the dwell- 

 ing-house, or some special provision should be made for heating 

 the milk-room, as the rise of cream is hastened and increased by 

 the avoidance of too low a temperature. The following concern- 

 ing milk-rooms is taken from Flint's " Milch Cows and Dairy 

 Farming :" — 



" From what has been said of the care requisite to preserve the 

 " milk from taint, it may be inferred that attention to the milk 



