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lent closet, devised by the author and found very useful, 

 is shown at figure 45. It is enclosed by wire gauze to 

 exclude flies and admit air, and is provided inside with 

 revolving shelves (figure 46) by which the milk may be 

 put in and taken out most conveniently. The cream jar 

 is kept under the shelves. A closet of this kind will ^ 

 hold five tiers of two, three, or four pans each, the 

 shelves being six or eight inches apart. The wire gauze 

 covering permits perfect ventilation. 



A closet or refrigerator for the use of ice, and prac- 

 tically deep setting on a small scale, is shown at figure 



Fig. 47.— REFRIGERATOR CLOSET. 



47, and needs no further description than to note that 

 the water from the melting ice is either carried off from 

 the ice tray by a -pipe, or drips upon the pails and runs 

 off through a pipe in the bottom. This closet is lined 

 with sheet tin or zinc. 



The tin pans in common use for setting milk have one 

 objectionable feature; this is, the seam around the bot- 

 tom in which sour milk will be concealed, un"'ess great 

 circumspection is used. The pressed pan, of which fig- 

 ure 48 gives a section, has no such hiding place for the 



