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material for milk-pans ; and in a fancy dairy, ruby-tinted glass 

 pans for milk would look uncommonly pleasing, and would 

 present an appearance of warmth in the midst of the requisite 

 coolness. 



That all dairy vessels and implements should be of such a 

 character that they are easily cleansed, handy to use, pleasant 

 to look at, and not liable to get out of order or condition, will 

 be denied by nobody who has any practical or theoretical 

 acquaintance with dairying. The dairy itself that is, the room 

 or rooms in which the milk is kept and the work is carried on 

 is the first consideration ; for, if it be defective as to construc- 

 tion, which should be designed to secure cleanliness and the 

 desired temperature, or if its arrangement be such that the 

 work becomes inconvenient and irksome, frequent and almost 



FIG. 16. WHME PORCELAIN MILK PAN. 



constant disappointment with it will be the result. The best 

 plans of dairy structures that I know of, including, of course, 

 the internal arrangements and the equipments necessary to the 

 work, are those designed by Bradford, of High Holborn and 

 Salford, and a great many excellent hints may be derived from 

 his illustrated catalogue. To such an extent has the study of 

 improved dairying been carried in recent years, that there is now 

 no reason, save that of expense, why anyone should have an 

 improper dairy or inferior equipments. 



The dairy workers of to-day have great advantages which 

 those of twenty years ago had not. During this short period, 

 the art and science of dairying have made greater progress than 

 they ever did before in a century : I think, at all events, it is 

 within the limit of truth that such is the case. It has been a 



