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and be kept standing at pleasure in any of them, 

 which is the most effective way of scalding, and 

 having made the tour of all,, may pass out to a 

 drain. The immediate passage of the water 

 through the wall of the dairy, should be in a 

 trough large enough to receive securely a pail of 

 milk emptied by it, that all from the cows may 

 Am at once through a hair sieve in this trough 

 into as many trays as are requisite to receive it. 

 This prevents all ingress to the dairy by dirty 

 men and boys who may bring palls of milk to it. 

 The dairy itself may be circular, and, if expence is 

 not regarded, a fountain of water may play in summer 

 in the centre of it, the water falling in a circular jef, 

 surrounded by a clean gutter to convey it a. 

 This, however, is mentioned as a hint for expensive 

 dairies, and not by any means as necessary. 



The establishment of a piggery demands even more 

 attention than that of a dairy, combining as it does 

 with more objects. This must be in a circle, or it 

 must fail in convenience. In the centre, the boiling 

 or steaining-house, with a granary for corn, meal, 

 bran, &c. a range of cisterns in divisions around 

 it, for receiving immediately from the copper or 

 steam apparatus, and also by tubes from the gra- 

 nary ; around these a path, then the fence, wall or 

 paling, in which the troughs with hanging- lids, 

 lor supplying food direclly from the cisterns, on 

 one side, and for the hogs feeding on the other ; a 

 range of yards next, and another of low sheds be- 

 yond, and last of all, the receptacle for the duns*. 



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