CHAPTER XIV. 

 BUTTER AND CREESE FACTORIES. 



Location of creameries. — In the location of a 

 creamery no one thing is more important than to 

 secure a well drained site, and yet this is in many 

 cases evidently the last thing thought of. Cream- 

 eries are located in any out of the way corner or 

 bit of waste land that happens to be at hand. 

 The drainage is no less an important matter to be 

 considered in selecting a creamery site than in se- 

 lecting a house site. The foundation of cleanliness 

 in a creamery begins with the sewer, and unless 

 the waste materials can be completely and quickly 

 drawn away the labor of keeping the whole prem- 

 ises clean is very much enhanced. 



Other things being equal, then, elevated ground 

 should be selected as a proper site for a creamery, 

 and if the advantage of the elevation can be made 

 use of in the arrangement of the working rooms, 

 so much the better. Another matter that may prove 

 of considerable value in many cases is a regard for 

 the natural or artificial shelter that may be given the 

 creamery building. A difference of six or eight de- 

 grees in the work-room temperature may be easily 

 secured by having a due regard to the advantages of 



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