398 FAKMING FOR LADIES, [chap. xx. 



describe a separate building which will an- 

 swer every prudent object, and may be 

 erected at very reasonable cost. 



The apartments which are particularly ap- 

 plicable to the business of the dairy, are — 

 one for milk, cream, and butter ; another for 

 churning, and a third for implements and 

 their washing ; but the churning and imple- 

 ment rooms may be very properly com- 

 bined, and the subjoined plan may be either 

 upon a small or enlarged scale. 



The building, though placed near to the 

 house, yet should be apart from an imme- 

 diate contact with any odour from the stable, 

 or other impurity, as well as from any pond 

 of stagnant water ; as nothing more readily 

 acquires an unpleasant taste or smell than 

 milk and cream. A uniform temperature 

 is also of extreme importance ; for al- 

 though the most experienced dairy-women 

 disagree on the degree of heat most suitable 

 to the production of cream and butter, yet 

 they all admit that the house cannot be kept 

 too cool in the summer : hence the main 

 aspect should be open to the north and east ; 

 and the building should, if possible, be shaded 



