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DAIRYING 



For this reason in choosing a location these two possibilities 

 should be kept in mind and provision made to overcome or pre- 

 vent them. 



Drainage through an 8-inch tile into a running stream of 

 water or a town sewer is to be preferred whenever possible. 

 When the creamery is located in the country, where this cannot 

 be done, this tile drainage should be conducted at least 40 rods 

 from the building before it is allowed to come to the surface; 

 and the outlet should be placed at some point where the natural 



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elevation of the land is such that the drainage is satisfactorily 

 distributed. There are some localities where it is impossible to 

 secure the outlets mentioned, and in such cases it may be sug- 

 gested that the drainage be conducted into a cess-pool. This 

 way of disposal should be adopted only as a last resort and never 

 attempted except when these cesspools can be located in a gravel 

 or porous sub-soil. More than one cesspool is to be recom- 

 mended, as by using them alternately one may be undergoing 



