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ground floor should be amply spacious, and a two-story 

 building with curing- room above is the cheapest. As an 

 even temperature and a stable condition of moisture and 

 good ventilation are required, it would seem that a base- 

 ment curing-room would be preferable to any other. It 

 would certainly provide every requisite in a more certain 

 manner than an upper floor. 



The factory site should be on high, airy, well-drained 

 ground. A permanent supply of water sufficient to fill a 

 two-inch pipe is needed for a factory of 500 cows. A 



Fig. 70. — CHEESE FACTOBT. 



building of this capacity should be seventy-five feet long 

 by thirty-two feet wide at least, and the floor should be 

 nine feet in the clear. If the curing-room is in the base- 

 ment, a story-and-a-half building only will be needed. 

 The frame should be substantial ; the lower floor of 

 matched hard pine plank, slopes three inches from front 

 to rear, where a trapped drain is made to convey aw^ay 

 all the slop and whey and the washing of the floor. The 

 ■whole interior should be double plastered. The upper 

 floor should be matched and tight, and to avoid pillars 

 in the lower room the beams should be supported by iron 



