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der and may then be used for many useful purposes, or 

 be added to the garden compost heap. 



AYhere the cellar cannot be used on account of the 

 wetness of the soil, an above-ground cellar must be pro- 

 vided. This may be partly sunk in the ground, but if 

 there is any danger of water soaking into it, it should be 

 wholly above the ground. It becomes then, properly, a 

 milk-house, and the description of such a house will be 

 as follows: 



Milk-houses may be constructed of wood, of stone, 

 or of brick. If well constructed, one kind may be 

 made as useful as another. For some purposes a frame 

 house is the best, retaining an even temperature better 



Fig. 36.— FRAilE MILK-HOUSE. 



than any other. Air passes through brick and plaster 

 with much greater facility than is generally supposed. 

 In a test once made the air, forced by a wind pressure of 

 only three pounds on a square foot, passed through a 

 brick wall plastered inside with such ease that, when 

 collected by a funnel one foot square and discharged 

 through a Email orifice, it was sufficient to extinguish 



