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pump and belts, and fitting up, was X61 Is. The cistern, which 

 is capable of holding 1,350 gallons, cost £38 13s, lOd. 



The dairy has attracted a great deal of attention. The first 

 feature that merits notice is the open shed, facing the yard, for 

 airing the milk vessels, <fec. It is 41 feet 6 inches long, and 11 

 feet 6 inches wide. A dairy usually contains three apartments : 

 (1) kitchen, (2) churning room and (3) milk room; and if 

 cheese be manufactured, an additional apartment is required. 



Here the churning and butter dressing are performed in the 

 dairy kitchen, which is kept most scrupulously clean. It is 17 

 feet by 14 feet 9 inches. It has a granite trough for washing 

 vessels, supplied with hot and cold water cocks. The butter is 

 dressed in a trough of polished slate flags, to the left as you 

 enter. Its dimensions are — 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 4 inches 

 deep. By turning the cock immediately over it, we have a 

 supply of cold water ; by lifting a tap in the bottom, this water 

 escapes. 



When the engine is at work, churning can be done by steam. 

 The churn is placed in front of the cone, in this kitchen ; and 

 its axes being fixed in the cone, the churning proceeds. The 

 extra expense for churning gear (viz., 34 feet of 2-inch shafting, 

 4 brackets, 5 pillow blocks, 9 bolts for brackets and pillow 

 blocks; 1 shaft, 13| feet long and 1\ inch diameter, in dairy; 

 fast and loose pulleys, cone, fitting up, &c.) was X37, 9s. 



Rowan's registered churn has long been used at Glasnevin, 

 with most satisfactory results ; and is the one generally used, 

 though there are others of different constructions. 



The milk room is 50 feet long and seventeen feet wide.* It 

 is divided into two compartments by a transverse wall, having 

 a large arched opening. Tliere is a great variety of inilk vessels : 

 White earthenware, which is easily cleaned, but liable to be 

 broken in the hands of careless servants ; glazed earthenware, 

 which is cheap and easily cleaned ; glass, which for sweetness 

 and cleanliness cannot be surpassed, but is too fragile and con- 

 sequently too expensive ; enamelled metal, which is all that 

 could be desired, if the enamelling were only proof against the 

 effects of hot water ; zinc, which by some is considered objec- 

 tionable on account of lactate of zinc being produced ; and 



* Height to the ceiling, 9 feet 10 inches. 



