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eluded in winter ; indeed, during the latter 

 season, an under-ground cellar will be found 

 no bad substitute. 



The utensils of the dairy comprise milk- 

 pails, pans, and cooling dishes for holding, 

 and sieves for straining, the milk when taken 

 from the cow ; with dishes for skimming the 

 cream, and churns for the making of butter ; 

 besides scales, prints, and boards, for weigh- 

 ing, measuring, and ornamenting it ; all which 

 we shall describe in the following chapter, 

 though so familiar to every dairy-maid as 

 hardly to need description, and requiring no 

 other instruction for their use than a strict 

 injunction to attend to the most scrupulous 

 cleanliness, not only with regard to her own 

 person, but to the cows, the dairy-house, and 

 the implements. 



