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each of the different farmers. In short, the dairy farmers 

 take care of their barns and feed and milk their cows, while 

 the central station takes care of the milk which the farmers 

 bring to it. From the central station the milk is shipped to 

 the city in the usual way. 



4. Plant and Equipment. The plant consists of a build- 

 ing such as is commonly used for creamery purposes or for 

 a milk shipping station. It must be large enough to accom- 

 modate the volume of milk which it is expected to collect 

 from the territory and must be constructed in accordance 

 with the well-recognized principles of milk sanitation. It 

 must have water-tight floors, abundant lighting and ventila- 

 tion, proper drainage and water supply, and must be con- 

 structed so that it can be easily cleaned. It should include 

 separate rooms for receiving milk, for washing pails and 

 cans, for cooling, bottling and pasteurizing milk, for bottle 

 washing, for power plant, for ice, and accommodations for 

 employees, office, laboratory and storage. The equipment 

 should include tanks for receiving milk, cooling, bottling and 

 pasteurizing equipment, bottle washing machinery, power 

 plant, refrigerating apparatus, and equipment for washing 

 milking pails and milk cans, a complete laboratory equip- 

 ment for examining milk for bacteria and butter fat, and the 

 proper type of covered milking pails and milk cans, milk 

 bottles, etc. 



So far as the dairy farms are concerned but little addi- 

 tional expense is necessary. Of the seventy farms at Homer, 

 N. Y., which have patronized the station of the New York 

 Dairy Demonstration Company, the only expense generally 

 undertaken has been for tanks of wood, or of cement, or of 

 galvanized iron, to hold ice-water in which the 40-quart 

 cans of night's milk have been stood for cooling purposes. 

 Aside from this, more frequent whitewashing of barns and 

 additional care in cleaning cow stables have been the chief 

 external evidences of extra sanitary precautions. 



