124 MODERN DAIRY PRACTICE. 



and I have found among these such as may injure the 

 keeping quality of the milk. If a factory is located too 

 near the roadside it is furthermore impossible to under- 

 take the very necessary airing of utensils a disadvantage 

 which is by no means of small importance. 



It is, however, absolutely necessary to be able to reach 

 the factory with teams. To avoid infection through dust 

 the road up to the factory should be paved, and during hot 

 days sprinkled and swept. It is greatly to be recom- 

 mended to plant trees and keep a lawn around the factory. 

 Close up to the factory there must not be tall trees, how- 

 ever, as they will throw too much shadow, and prevent the 

 light from properly purifying the factory air. Large 

 groups of shrubs keep the ground moist, and if near the 

 wall will produce rot and moldiness. A small, neat, orna- 

 mental garden with old linden trees and some groups of 

 flowers and shrubs here and there has this further advan- 

 tage, that they not only increase the feeling of well-being 

 of the factory hands, but also to a great extent sharpen 

 their eye and sense for neatness and good looks. 



It is very difficult to keep a factory clean for any length 

 of time in a dirty and poorly kept location: even if 

 it is nice-looking and neat when built, so that it forms a 

 real oasis of cleanliness among the disorder of the sur- 

 roundings, it will pretty soon be impossible for the factory- 

 hands to keep it so. Their eye for neatness and cleanli- 

 ness will be gradually dulled, the fight against filth be- 

 come more and more hopeless every week, and finally they 

 meet and become accustomed to slovenliness in the factory 

 itself. 



The Farm Dairy. On many farms the dairy house is 

 also used for other purposes than those for which it is 



