CHAPTER XIV. 



CREAMERY BUILDINGS. 



SITE: AND SURROUNDINGS. 



In making a choice as to location, having made sure of the 

 cows, the following points should be considered: (i.) A supply 

 of good water. (2.) Possibility of proper drainage. (3.) Ab- 

 sence of disagreeable odors. (4.) Central location (central as 

 to milk supply, not geographically), preferably at a junction of 

 roads. (5.) Nearness to railroad station and ice supply. 



A good substantial macadamized driveway and yard should 

 slope from the building. If a dug well is to be used the greatest 

 care should be taken in preventing surface water and drainage 

 from getting into it ; the only safe supply is an artesian well. 



Too often the location is made a matter of compromise be- 

 tween patrons who try to get it near their own farms instead of 

 rinding the best place for the creamery. 



THE BUILDING. 



The foundation should be made of stone and started below 

 the frostline. The floor should either be good smooth flagstones 

 or hard, glazed bricks, both laid in cement, or a good concrete 

 foundation for a Portland cement floor. A poor cement floor is a 

 delusion and a snare. Wooden floors should be made of 2-in. 

 Georgia pine, either beveled and corked like a ship's deck, or 

 matched and leaded. Soak with hot linseed (boiled) oil before 

 putting in use. The walls of the best modern creameries are 

 made of brick, preferably hollow brick, but in any case with 1-2- 

 inch air space in the center. The inside walls should be finished 

 with cement plaster or some of the patent waterproof plasters. 

 If of wood, I prefer inside lining of oiled Georgia pine up and 

 down without any bead and at least two air spaces lined with 

 good paper. 



The windows should, as much as possible, be on the north 

 side and provided with screens, Venetian blinds, and in the north, 

 at least, with storm sashes. 



The roof should have a steep pitch and is best made of slate, 

 but shingles boiled in a copperas solution will do. Tin roofs are 



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