Arrangement of Cheese Factories. 



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takes in arrangement are less liable to be made. 

 The governing principle should be that the milk, in 

 its transformation from milk to cheese, should pass 

 in one direction from the weighing can toward the 

 curing room. The outlines given, Figs. 42 and 



Fig. 43. Plan of cheese factory improperly arranged. 



43, show factories properly and improperly arranged. 

 In Fig. 42, the milk taken in at A passes into the 

 vats at B, from thence to the curd sink C, and the 

 press D, and finally to the curing room E, con- 

 stantly in one direction and with a minimum of hand 

 labor. Whereas, in Fig. 43, following the same let- 

 ters, the milk or curd travels from one end of the 

 room to the other and back again. While cheese 

 factories, as a rule, are used only during the warm 

 months of the year, and perhaps for that reason 



